Limiting Federal Court Jurisdiction to Protect Marriage for the States: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, June 24, 2004, Volumen4U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004 - 153 páginas |
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abolish accompanying text American appellate jurisdiction Article III courts authority bill BOSTON COLLEGE BOSTON COLLEGE LAW CHABOT Chairman circuit courts Clinton COLLEGE LAW REVIEW Committee CONGRESS'S UNDERSTANDING congressional power constitutional amendment Court's appellate jurisdiction created Dannemeyer decision diversity jurisdiction DOMA due process enacted Ex parte McCardle Exceptions Clause exercise federal court jurisdiction federal judiciary federal jurisdiction federal law Federalist GERHARDT gress hearing HOSTETTLER III-JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT inferior courts inferior federal courts infra Appendix issue judicial power Judiciary Act June jurisdic legislative limit the jurisdiction lower courts lower federal courts MACLAY'S DIARY Madison Marriage Protection Act McCardle NADLER Oliver Ellsworth original jurisdiction Paterson Paterson's Notes Paterson's Speech Pledge of Allegiance power of Congress prayer proposed question ratification regulate restrict same-sex marriages SCHLAFLY separation of powers statute Steve Chabot Supreme Court Supreme Court's appellate tion U.S. Constitution U.S. Supreme Court United violates
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Página 64 - I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Página 3 - 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 parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Página 35 - I have never shrunk from its expression... that the germ of dissolution of our Federal Government is in the Constitution of the Federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body... for impeachment is scarcely a scarecrow. . .working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.
Página 44 - We are not at liberty to inquire into the motives of the legislature. • 'We can only examine into its power under the Constitution ; and the power to make exceptions to the appellate jurisdiction of this court is given by express words.
Página 60 - It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide upon the constitutionality of any bill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval as it is of the supreme judges when it may be brought before them for judicial decision.
Página 5 - Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of the courts of justice; whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.
Página 16 - Hart, The Power of Congress to Limit the Jurisdiction of Federal Courts: An Exercise in Dialectic, 66 HARV.
Página 46 - ... nor shall any district, or circuit court, have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note, or other chose in action, in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.
Página 11 - The notion has frequently been entertained that the Federal courts derive their judicial power immediately from the Constitution ; but the political truth is that the disposal of the judicial power, except in a few specified instances, belongs to Congress.
Página 105 - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.