Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney, LL.D.: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United StatesJ. Murphy & Company, 1872 - 659 páginas |
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Página xii
... administration of law in Maryland - A Marylander murdered in Penn- sylvania in attempting to recover by law his fugitive slave- A gentleman mur- dered by his slaves in Frederick County - The slaves receive a fair trial at law- Mr. Taney ...
... administration of law in Maryland - A Marylander murdered in Penn- sylvania in attempting to recover by law his fugitive slave- A gentleman mur- dered by his slaves in Frederick County - The slaves receive a fair trial at law- Mr. Taney ...
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... administration - Mr. Taney appointed Attor- ney - General of the United States - The reason for his selection - He accepts reluctantly Letters from Mr. Key to him giving conversations with General Jackson , and with members of the ...
... administration - Mr. Taney appointed Attor- ney - General of the United States - The reason for his selection - He accepts reluctantly Letters from Mr. Key to him giving conversations with General Jackson , and with members of the ...
Página xiv
... administration a reaction against the later tendency of that of Chief - Justice Marshall - Mr. Justice Story - The influence of Chief- Justice Taney on the working of the Federal Government shown by an analysis of his leading opinions ...
... administration a reaction against the later tendency of that of Chief - Justice Marshall - Mr. Justice Story - The influence of Chief- Justice Taney on the working of the Federal Government shown by an analysis of his leading opinions ...
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... administration , Frederick County was very decidedly Republican , and he was defeated . Though it was only in the fifth year of his residence in Frederick , Mr. Taney had acquired such a position at the bar , and his practice was so ...
... administration , Frederick County was very decidedly Republican , and he was defeated . Though it was only in the fifth year of his residence in Frederick , Mr. Taney had acquired such a position at the bar , and his practice was so ...
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... administration of law gives vigor and elevation to the moral life of a community . Such was Mr. Taney's reputation , at this period , that he argued appeals from every county on the Western Shore of Maryland , as may be seen in the ...
... administration of law gives vigor and elevation to the moral life of a community . Such was Mr. Taney's reputation , at this period , that he argued appeals from every county on the Western Shore of Maryland , as may be seen in the ...
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Página 409 - At the same time, the candid citizen must 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 in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Página 264 - To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation.
Página 577 - ... so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro may justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Página 265 - Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void.
Página 521 - On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and, whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the Government might choose to grant them.
Página 630 - If any Person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor in any state, shall flee from Justice, and be found in any of the united states, he shall upon demand of the Governor or executive power, of the state from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the state having jurisdiction of his offence.
Página 634 - ... notice of the arrest to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear...
Página 255 - It is inherent in the nature of sovereignty not to be amenable to the suit of an individual WITHOUT ITS CONSENT. This is the general sense, and the general practice of mankind; and the exemption, as one of the attributes of sovereignty, is now enjoyed by the government of every State in the Union.
Página 633 - Justice of the executive authority of any state or territory to which such person has fled, and produces a copy of an indictment found, or an affidavit made, before a magistrate of any state or territory, charging the person demanded with having committed treason, felony, or other crime...
Página 402 - Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.