 | Sotirios A. Barber, Robert P. George - 2001 - 354 sider
...these presidents believed and acted on the sentiment best expressed by Lincoln, that "if the policy of government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court . . . the people will have ceased to be their own rulers."34 Lincoln... | |
 | John Albert Murley, John Alvis - 2002 - 310 sider
...campaign against the Supreme Court Constitution, with Lincoln's wellknown statement in the First Inaugural that: "If the policy of the government, upon vital...will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal." In... | |
 | Hadley Arkes - 2002 - 326 sider
...mean that "the policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, [could] be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court,...litigation between parties, in personal actions." And in that event, said Lincoln, "the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that... | |
 | Sabas H. Whittaker M. F. a., Sabas Whittaker, M.F.A. - 2003 - 367 sider
...that it may be overruled and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice. At the same time,...people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Nor is... | |
 | Stephen K. Shaw, William D. Pederson - 2004 - 284 sider
...Congress has over the judges, and on that point the President is independent of both."57 Lincoln declared, "If the policy of the government, upon vital questions...people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."58 Looking... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger - 2003 - 772 sider
...the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people," said Abraham Lincoln, "is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme...people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal." "One... | |
 | Daniel A. Farber - 2004 - 251 sider
...respect and consideration, in all paralel [sic] cases, by all other departments of the government." But the "candid citizen must confess that if the policy...decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, . . . the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned... | |
 | Paul O. Carrese - 2010 - 350 sider
...FORCE nor WILL but merely judgment." He also cites Lincoln's warning, in opposing Dred Scott (1857), that "if the policy of the Government upon vital questions...fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court . . . the people will have ceased to be their own rulers." 50 The plurality or majority reasoning about a constitutional... | |
 | Robert Singh - 2003 - 364 sider
...the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please'. In 1861, another complained that 'if ... the policy of the Government upon vital...fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court . . . the people will have ceased to be their own rulers'. And in 1937, it was protested that 'the Court . .... | |
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At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between... 
