Congress, the Court, and the Constitution: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, January 29, 1998U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 - 149 páginas |
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... protect and uphold the Constitution . The strength of our system of Government is based on the inter- dependence of ... protects us from external threats at home and abroad , but also protects us from the greatest threat ever imagined by ...
... protect and uphold the Constitution . The strength of our system of Government is based on the inter- dependence of ... protects us from external threats at home and abroad , but also protects us from the greatest threat ever imagined by ...
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... protect our liberty , having this debate is fun- damental to understanding what kind of Government we have , or more important , aspire to . Indeed , it is a debate and conversation that has been taking place since our founding . My ...
... protect our liberty , having this debate is fun- damental to understanding what kind of Government we have , or more important , aspire to . Indeed , it is a debate and conversation that has been taking place since our founding . My ...
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... protect our liberty , having this debate is fundamental to understanding what kind of government we have , or more important , aspire to . Indeed , it is a debate and conversation that has been taking place since our founding . My ...
... protect our liberty , having this debate is fundamental to understanding what kind of government we have , or more important , aspire to . Indeed , it is a debate and conversation that has been taking place since our founding . My ...
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... protect things when they like them . For in- stance , this subcommittee and this committee has voted out legisla- tion to require a higher degree of judicial scrutiny because a three- judge court bears a referendum . Well , I'd like to ...
... protect things when they like them . For in- stance , this subcommittee and this committee has voted out legisla- tion to require a higher degree of judicial scrutiny because a three- judge court bears a referendum . Well , I'd like to ...
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... protect minori- ties . Mr CANADY . Professor Campbell . STATEMENT OF HON . TOM CAMPBELL , A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Mr. CAMPBELL . Thank you , Mr. Chairman . It's ironic that you put me right after ...
... protect minori- ties . Mr CANADY . Professor Campbell . STATEMENT OF HON . TOM CAMPBELL , A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Mr. CAMPBELL . Thank you , Mr. Chairman . It's ironic that you put me right after ...
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Página 85 - The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts.
Página 7 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Página 16 - Thus, the particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.
Página 7 - The opinion of the judges has no more authority over congress than the opinion of congress has over the judges, and on that point the president is independent of both. The authority of the supreme court must not, therefore, be permitted to control the congress or the executive, when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.
Página 9 - 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 19 - Deciding whether a matter has in any measure been committed by the Constitution to another branch of government, or whether the action of that branch exceeds whatever authority has been committed, is itself a delicate exercise in constitutional interpretation, and is a responsibility of this Court as ultimate interpreter of the Constitution.
Página 7 - You seem, in pages 84 and 148, to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is "boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem...
Página 55 - When the President acts in absence of either a congressional grant or denial of authority, he can only rely upon his own independent powers, but there is a zone of twilight in which he and Congress may have concurrent authority, or in which its distribution is uncertain.
Página 104 - If two laws conflict with each other the courts must decide on the operation of each. So, if a law be in opposition to the Constitution; if both the law and the Constitution apply to a particular case, so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law, disregarding the Constitution, or conformably to the Constitution, disregarding the law, the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.
Página 75 - The legislative department derives a superiority, in our Governments, from other circumstances. Its constitutional powers being at once more extensive and less susceptible of precise limits, it can, with the greater facility, mask, under complicated and indirect measures, the encroachments which it makes on the co-ordinate departments.