...mean that "the policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, [could] be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court,...litigation between parties, in personal actions." And in that event, said Lincoln, "the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that...

...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 before...

...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" (Delbanco 1992, 201). Still, Lincoln chose not to take as harsh a tone toward the Court as some of...

...of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people," said Abraham Lincoln, "is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court,...government into the hands of that eminent tribunal." "One way or the other," said Theodore Roosevelt, "it will be absolutely necessary for the people themselves...

...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. Lincoln was of course alluding to the Dred Scott decision, which, by professing to end that era's controversy...

...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,...resigned their government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.35 A scholar's or politician's attitude toward the judiciary and its occupants is frequently...

...declared, "If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court,...resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."58 Looking back on thirty years of judicial decisions preventing "measures for social and...

...government policy on "vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed" by the Court, "the people will have ceased to be their own rulers,...resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."6 Dred Scott was eventually overturned by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments,...

...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 before...