| United States. Supreme Court - 1821 - 716 páginas
...it, if it be brought before us. We have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given, than to usurp that which is not given. The...we would gladly avoid ; but we cannot avoid them. All we can do is, to exercise our best judgment, and conscientiously to perform our duty. In doing... | |
| 1821 - 438 páginas
...it, if it be. brought before us. We have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given* than to usurp that which is not given. The one or Other would be treason to the constitution. Questions may occur whioh we would gladly avoid; but we... | |
| Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 páginas
...it, if it be brought before us. We have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction, which is given, than to usurp that, which is not given....we would gladly avoid ; but we cannot avoid them. All we can do is, to exercise our best judgment, and conscientiously to perform our duty. In doing... | |
| John Marshall - 1839 - 762 páginas
...it, if it be brought before us. ^We have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given than to usurp that which is not given. The...we would gladly avoid ; but we cannot avoid them. .All we can do is, to exercise our best judgment, and conscientiously to perform our duty.j In doing... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court - 1871 - 818 páginas
...it if it is brought before us. We have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given, than to usurp that which is not given. The...which we would gladly avoid, but we cannot avoid them. All we can do is, to exercise our best judgment and conscientiously perform our duty." — Cohens v.... | |
| Joseph Story - 1851 - 642 páginas
...it, when it arises in judgment. It has no more right to decline the exercise of a jurisdiction which is given, than to usurp that which is not given. The...or the other would be treason to the constitution. 1 § 1577. The framers of the constitution, having these great principles in view, adopted two fundamental... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 674 páginas
...it, if it be brought before us. We have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given, than to usurp that which is not given. The...we would gladly avoid ; but we cannot avoid them. All we can do is to exercise our best judgment, and conscientiously to perform our duty. In doing this,... | |
| Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - 1892 - 664 páginas
...it if it be brought before us. We have no more right to decline the exercise of Jurisdiction which is given than to usurp that which is not given. The one or the other will be treason to the constitution." Second. The relator insists that the electors have reserved to... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 594 páginas
...it, if it be brought before us. We have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given, than to usurp that which is not given. The...we would gladly avoid ; but we cannot avoid them. All we can do is, to exercise our best judgment, and conscientiously to perform our duty. In doing... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1867 - 732 páginas
...it if it be brought before us. "Wo have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given than to usurp that which is not given. The...or the other would be treason to the Constitution." Such was the answer given by this court, in that day, to the Legislature of Virginia, then all-powerful,... | |
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