...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 question affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme...

...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 may be overruled and never become p. precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the 10 evils of a different practice....

...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...and never become a precedent for other cases, can be better borne than could the evils of a different practice. At the same time, the candid citizen...

...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 question affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme...

...yielded to the new doctrine of " Judicial Supremacy." Mr. Lincoln said, in his first inaugural address: "The candid citizen must 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...

...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 question affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme...

...degrading to make a fetish of a judge or of any one else. Abraham Lincoln said, in his first inaugural: "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...

...warned about government by the judiciary in his first inaugural address. He said this, and I quote: "If the policy of the government upon vital questions...irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instance they are made in ordinary litigation the people will have ceased to be their own rulers."...

...similar statement is made in Jefferson's "Autobiography," Writings, vol. 1, pp. 112-13 (1892). 944 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...

...Gettysburg, 146-47. 272 Most famously, in his first inaugural address, Lincoln denied that the constitutional "policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisons of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties. To...