 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 372 Seiten
...requiring notice as your opinion is strengthened by that of many others. You seem, in pages 84 and 148, to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of...would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for... | |
 | Samuel R. Artman - 1908 - 304 Seiten
...page 84 and 148, to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions—a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for... | |
 | Charles Grove Haines - 1909 - 194 Seiten
...as the ultimate arbiters of all con- 1 stitutional questions. This, Jefferson held, was a " very I dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as ) honest as other men, and not more so. They have with / others, the same passions... | |
 | Robert Latham Owen - 1911 - 24 Seiten
...right of recall of English judges. Thomas Jefferson, in his letter to Mr. Jarvis, in 1820, wisely said: You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters...questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one that would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. John Marshall, the famous Chief Justice of... | |
 | Allan Louis Benson - 1911 - 72 Seiten
...like a thief over the field of jurisdiction. . . ." — Jefferson, in a letter to CH Hammond, 1821. "You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters...questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one that would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." — Jefferson in a letter to a Mr. Jarvis,... | |
 | Charles Warren - 1911 - 608 Seiten
...without intermission, is to press us at last into one consolidated mass." On September 2, 1821, he wrote: "To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions, is very dangerous doctrine indeed and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - 1912 - 714 Seiten
...requiring notice as your opinion is strengthened by that of many others. You seem, in pages 84 and 148, to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of...would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - 1913 - 1302 Seiten
...department. He referred to the power claimed for the Judges to decide constitutional questions, as " a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." In 1821 he said "The Judiciary Branch is the instrument which, working like gravity without intermission,... | |
 | 1914 - 608 Seiten
...American whose democracy was pure and undefiled. He wrote to Jarvis: "It is a very dangerous doctrine to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions The constitution has erected no such single tribunal It has made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign... | |
 | Charles Grenfill Washburn - 1916 - 284 Seiten
...to a Mr. Jarvis, dated Monticello, September 28, 1820, from which the following is an extract: — You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters...would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and no more so. They have, with others, the same passions for... | |
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You seem, in pages 84 and 148, to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions — a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men,... 
