Congress, the Constitution and the Supreme CourtLittle, Brown,, 1925 - 308 páginas |
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... BILL OF RIGHTS AND THE COURT IV . EARLY CONGRESSES AND THE COURT . PAGE V • 3 41 751 95 · V. THE PROPOSAL TO MAKE CONGRESS THE SUPREME AND FINAL JUDGE OF ITS OWN POWERS . 128 VII . VI . THE PROPOSAL TO VEST IN A MINORITY OF THE COURT ...
... BILL OF RIGHTS AND THE COURT IV . EARLY CONGRESSES AND THE COURT . PAGE V • 3 41 751 95 · V. THE PROPOSAL TO MAKE CONGRESS THE SUPREME AND FINAL JUDGE OF ITS OWN POWERS . 128 VII . VI . THE PROPOSAL TO VEST IN A MINORITY OF THE COURT ...
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... Bill of Rights in this country , placed at its head this senti- ment that " no free government or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles . " Benjamin Franklin followed ...
... Bill of Rights in this country , placed at its head this senti- ment that " no free government or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles . " Benjamin Franklin followed ...
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Charles Warren. the Massachusetts Bill of Rights in 1780 , amplified it — that " a frequent recurrence to the principles of the Constitution . . . is absolutely necessary to preserve the advantages of liberty and to maintain a free ...
Charles Warren. the Massachusetts Bill of Rights in 1780 , amplified it — that " a frequent recurrence to the principles of the Constitution . . . is absolutely necessary to preserve the advantages of liberty and to maintain a free ...
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... Bill of Rights , this remark is really chiefly applicable to the first ten Amendments . The original Constitution was mostly derived from the history and from the ex- perience of the American Colonies and States . While it is true that ...
... Bill of Rights , this remark is really chiefly applicable to the first ten Amendments . The original Constitution was mostly derived from the history and from the ex- perience of the American Colonies and States . While it is true that ...
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... Bill of Rights ) that " the Legislative , Executive and Judicial powers of government ought to be forever separate and distinct from each other " is not to be taken too literally . " Separate and distinct " did not mean " independent ...
... Bill of Rights ) that " the Legislative , Executive and Judicial powers of government ought to be forever separate and distinct from each other " is not to be taken too literally . " Separate and distinct " did not mean " independent ...
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Página 79 - If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Página 289 - all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.
Página 222 - I do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich; and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties incumbent on me as , according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the constitution and laws of the United States.
Página 93 - Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights ; they will be an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the Legislative or Executive ; they will be naturally led to resist every encroachment upon rights expressly stipulated for in the Constitution by the declaration of rights.
Página 5 - ... the people. But, sir, they have not stopped here. If they had, they would have accomplished but half their work. No definition can be so clear, as to avoid possibility of doubt; no limitation so precise, as to exclude all uncertainty.' Who then, shall construe this grant of the people?
Página 9 - I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For, having lived long...
Página 85 - The freedom of deliberation, speech, and debate, in either house of the legislature, is so essential to the rights of the people, that it cannot be the foundation of any accusation or prosecution, action or complaint, in any other court or place whatsoever.
Página 96 - Constitution, forbids the federal government to control as to slavery in the federal territories, he is right to say so, and to enforce his position by all truthful evidence and fair argument which he can. But he has no right to mislead others, who have less access to history and less leisure to study it, into the false belief that " our fathers who framed the government under which we live," were of the same opinion — thus substituting falsehood and deception for truthful evidence and fair argument.
Página 285 - That any Chinese person or person of Chinese descent, when convicted and adjudged under any of said laws to be not lawfully entitled to be or remain in the United States, shall be removed from the United States...
Página 172 - ... or is about to act in a manner prejudicial to the public safety or the defence of the realm...