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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... and among them is a sketch of my own . The work is full of interest , and obviously prepared with much labor and industry . My life is , therefore , to form a part of the history of the country . The high offices I have filled 2 17.
... and among them is a sketch of my own . The work is full of interest , and obviously prepared with much labor and industry . My life is , therefore , to form a part of the history of the country . The high offices I have filled 2 17.
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... interest from its connection with men and things as they existed in the generation which has now passed away . I belong to that generation , and lived and acted in it and with it . And the history of my life is ne- cessarily associated ...
... interest from its connection with men and things as they existed in the generation which has now passed away . I belong to that generation , and lived and acted in it and with it . And the history of my life is ne- cessarily associated ...
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... interest he took in my fortunes as long as he lived . He was residing in George Town , retired from busi- ness , when I was appointed Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court . I had not seen him for a great many years . But as soon as I ...
... interest he took in my fortunes as long as he lived . He was residing in George Town , retired from busi- ness , when I was appointed Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court . I had not seen him for a great many years . But as soon as I ...
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... interest in the case under argument , but solely , as it seemed to me , for the pleasure of seeing his old pupil presiding in that court . I was sensibly touched by these tokens of enduring interest in my fortunes , and never failed to ...
... interest in the case under argument , but solely , as it seemed to me , for the pleasure of seeing his old pupil presiding in that court . I was sensibly touched by these tokens of enduring interest in my fortunes , and never failed to ...
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... interest in me from my youth and the manner in which I had been placed under his care ; and she never failed , when she had an opportunity , to give me a regular course of motherly instruction and advice . I always listened to her with ...
... interest in me from my youth and the manner in which I had been placed under his care ; and she never failed , when she had an opportunity , to give me a regular course of motherly instruction and advice . I always listened to her with ...
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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.