...challenged John Marshall's doctrine of judicial supremacy as a mortal threat to democracy itself: ... if the policy of the Government upon vital questions...affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by the decision of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties...

...inaugural address. The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon final questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, that people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their...

...Abraham Lincoln — I will close with this. He said the — this was in his first inaugural address. The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon final questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court,...

...seeks to close the door on any opening by which the people might attempt to influence the course of "the policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people," as Abraham Lincoln once feared.2" The Court, according to Casey, must "speak before all others for...

...obviously possible that such decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the...must confess that if the policy of the government is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary...

...Fathers said it was and it cannot be amended without the will of the people. President Lincoln warned, "If the policy of the government upon vital questions...irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court ... the people will have ceased to be their own rulers." Abraham Lincoln also warned, "Don't interfere with...

...Scott. Do you share President Lincoln's concerns that I am going to quote here from his first inaugural: "If the policy 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...

...obviously possible that such a decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled and never become precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice. At the...

...irredeemably partisan when taking sides on that issue. It led Abraham Lincoln to warn, "If the policy of government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court . . . the people will have ceased to be their own rulers."12 Lincoln's...

...Dred Scott?), but he would not allow "erroneous" decisions and their "evil effect" to fix irrevocably "the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people." In a moving peroration, Lincoln pleaded with his native Border South and men of patriotic goodwill...