Reconfirmation of Federal Judges: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session, on S.J. Res. 106 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - 347 páginas |
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... Chief Justice Taney , in refusing to embroil the Court in Rhode Island's civil disturbances , established the doctrine of avoidance of political questions . He stated : " This tribunal . . . therefore should be the last to overstep the ...
... Chief Justice Taney , in refusing to embroil the Court in Rhode Island's civil disturbances , established the doctrine of avoidance of political questions . He stated : " This tribunal . . . therefore should be the last to overstep the ...
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... Chief Justice President of Family Division and Ad- miralty Divisions ( part of Queen's Bench Division . ? Justices ... Chief Justice . Tenure Lord High Chancellor holds office during the pleasure of , and as a member of , the Ministry ...
... Chief Justice President of Family Division and Ad- miralty Divisions ( part of Queen's Bench Division . ? Justices ... Chief Justice . Tenure Lord High Chancellor holds office during the pleasure of , and as a member of , the Ministry ...
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... judge Tenure COMMONWEALTH APPENDIX A - Continued AUSTRALIA 1 Appointment Confirmation / reconfirmation High Court : Chief justice and not Shall not be removed except by By Governor - General in Council . None . less than 2 others ...
... judge Tenure COMMONWEALTH APPENDIX A - Continued AUSTRALIA 1 Appointment Confirmation / reconfirmation High Court : Chief justice and not Shall not be removed except by By Governor - General in Council . None . less than 2 others ...
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... Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes said : " We do not write on a blank sheet . The Court has its jurisprudence , the helpful repository of the deliberate and expressed convictions of generations of sincere minds addressing themselves to ...
... Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes said : " We do not write on a blank sheet . The Court has its jurisprudence , the helpful repository of the deliberate and expressed convictions of generations of sincere minds addressing themselves to ...
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... Chief Justice has unanimously sustained the poll tax as valid . In 1966 in Harper vs. Virginia , 16 L. Ed . ( 2 ) 169 in a 6 to 3 decision written by Justice Douglas , they decided exactly to the contrary and ruled the poll tax ...
... Chief Justice has unanimously sustained the poll tax as valid . In 1966 in Harper vs. Virginia , 16 L. Ed . ( 2 ) 169 in a 6 to 3 decision written by Justice Douglas , they decided exactly to the contrary and ruled the poll tax ...
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Página 248 - It is essential to the preservation of the rights of every individual, his life, liberty, property, and character that there be an impartial interpretation of the laws, and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial, and independent as the lot of humanity will admit.
Página 33 - But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
Página 12 - The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society, and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.
Página 238 - Many forms of conduct permissible in a workaday world for those acting at arm's length, are forbidden to those bound by fiduciary ties. A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
Página 29 - But a constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory, whether of paternalism and the organic relation of the citizen to the State or of laissez jaire. It is made for people of fundamentally differing views...
Página 56 - The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority; such, for instance, as that it shall pass no bills of attainder, no ex post facto laws, and the like.
Página 80 - In order to lay a due foundation for that separate and distinct exercise of the different powers of Government, which to a certain extent is admitted on all hands to be essential to the preservation of liberty, it is evident that each department should have a will of its own ; and consequently should be so constituted, that the members of each should have as little agency as possible in the appointment of the members of the others.
Página 13 - ... dependence of the former on the latter, notwithstanding a nominal and apparent separation; that as, from the natural feebleness of the judiciary, it is in continual jeopardy of being overpowered, awed, or influenced by its coordinate branches; and that, as nothing can contribute so much to its firmness and independence as permanency in office, this quality may therefore be justly regarded as an indispensable ingredient in its constitution, and, in a great measure, as the citadel of the public...
Página 78 - In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them : the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them : to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Página 31 - ... the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In Reynolds, Mr. Chief Justice Warren said : "We hold that, as a basic constitutional standard, the equal protection clause requires that the seats in both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis.