...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 chance that it be over-ruled, and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils...

...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...confess that if the policy of the Government upon the vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme...

...regarding the Court's Constitutional position: "As Abraham Lincoln warned in his First Inaugural Address, '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, having to that extent, practically resigned their government...

...Although the Dred Scott decision provoked Abraham Lincoln to proclaim that democracy would be lost "if the policy of the government, upon vital questions...irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court," his point was precisely that the Court, acting on behalf of the Democratic majorities that had controlled...

...regarding the Court's Constitutional position: "As Abraham Lincoln warned in his First Inaugural Address, 'if the policy of the government, upon vital questions,...to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent, practically resigned...

...Scott decision, suggesting that the Taney Court would not have the final word on the issue of slavery: "[T]he candid citizen must 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...

...1864, Roy P. Easier, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., 1953), IV:268 (observing 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, having, to that extent, practically resigned their...

...judicial independence in the first place. Abraham Lincoln put it well in his First Inaugural Address: "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." 13 We are perilously close to that point now. Nancy...

...Lincoln was the most assertive on this point, contending in his First Inaugural that "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."155 It was...

...To support his argument, Roosevelt repeats Lincoln's declaration from his First Inaugural Address: "If the policy of the government upon vital questions...fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court . . . the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government...