...Government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decision of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in...resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.59 The most scandalous attack would come from William H. Seward, the senator from New York....

...questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decision of the Supreme Court, ... the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers,...resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.2* Those of us who have attended law school have been conditioned to be judge-lovers and politician-despisers...

...a matter to be decided by ordinary voters and their elected representatives. Otherwise, he warned, "the people will have ceased to be their own rulers,...practically resigned their government into the hands of an eminent tribunal."'5 Once civil war began, Lincoln was unwilling to abolish slavery by executive...

...of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court the instant they are made in ordinary litigation, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers"? Judge ROBERTS. Well, President Lincoln, of course,...

...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...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned...

...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,...tribunal. Nor is there, in this view, any assault upon the court, or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought...

...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,...government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. For Lincoln, it was not just slavery at stake. If the Court became the last word in American politics,...

...confess that if the policy of the government on vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...government into the hands of that eminent tribunal." He also vowed to protect federal government property during the crisis, but promised that the Union...

...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,...actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rules, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."...

...questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court.. .the people will have ceased to be their own rulers,...government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.'" (Glendon, p. 168, emphasis added) Like Jefferson, Lincoln defied the Court by suspending the writ of...