 | Robert Singh - 2003 - 342 páginas
...the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please'. In 1861, another complained that 'if ... the policy of the Government upon vital...fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court . . . the people will have ceased to be their own rulers'. And in 1937, it was protested that 'the Court . .... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger - 2003 - 749 páginas
...the opinion of Congress has over the judges, and on that point the President is independent of both." "If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people," said Abraham Lincoln, "is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they... | |
 | Louis Fisher - 2003 - 82 páginas
...denied that constitutional questions could be settled solely by the Court. If 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, having to that extent practically resigned... | |
 | David L. Faigman - 2004 - 417 páginas
...made clear his disdain for the decision and, in his inaugural address, his intention to ignore it: The candid citizen must confess that if the policy...affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decision of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in... | |
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