John Marshall: Life, Character and Judicial Services as Portrayed in the Centenary and Memorial Addresses and Proceedings Throughout the United States on Marshall Day, 1901, and in the Classic Orations of Binney, Story, Phelps, Waite and Rawle, Volume 2John Forrest Dillon Callaghan & Company, 1903 |
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... Chief Justice , frontispiece of the present volume , is made after a photograph of an original painting by R. M. Sully . The history of this portrait is thus stated by the present owner , Judge John Barton Payne of Chicago , in a letter ...
... Chief Justice , frontispiece of the present volume , is made after a photograph of an original painting by R. M. Sully . The history of this portrait is thus stated by the present owner , Judge John Barton Payne of Chicago , in a letter ...
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... Chief Justice James McSherry was called upon to preside . Rev. W. Strother Jones , of Trenton , N. J. , a great - grandson of Chief Jus- tice Marshall , spoke of John Marshall - The Man in eloquent terms and delivered a most instructive ...
... Chief Justice James McSherry was called upon to preside . Rev. W. Strother Jones , of Trenton , N. J. , a great - grandson of Chief Jus- tice Marshall , spoke of John Marshall - The Man in eloquent terms and delivered a most instructive ...
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... Chief Justice of the United States . " Mr. Pinkney said of him : " That he was born to be the Chief Justice of any country in which he lived , " and indeed it seemed as if the judicial ermine had fallen on his shoulders by natural ...
... Chief Justice of the United States . " Mr. Pinkney said of him : " That he was born to be the Chief Justice of any country in which he lived , " and indeed it seemed as if the judicial ermine had fallen on his shoulders by natural ...
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... Chief Justice would depart from their accustomed simplicity into the realm of scholas- tic embellishment . Judge Story , in one of his letters , when he first saw him , thus described him : " He possesses great subtlety of mind , but it ...
... Chief Justice would depart from their accustomed simplicity into the realm of scholas- tic embellishment . Judge Story , in one of his letters , when he first saw him , thus described him : " He possesses great subtlety of mind , but it ...
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... Chief Justice to that of statesman is too lim- ited to refer to the many cases in which he illustrated the fact that ... Chief Justice in dealing with large constitutional ques- tions . Nothing shows more clearly than the close of this ...
... Chief Justice to that of statesman is too lim- ited to refer to the many cases in which he illustrated the fact that ... Chief Justice in dealing with large constitutional ques- tions . Nothing shows more clearly than the close of this ...
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Page 275 - That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original right is a very great exertion ; nor can it nor ought it to be frequently repeated. The principles, therefore, so established, are deemed fundamental. And as the authority from which they proceed is supreme, and can seldom act, they are designed...
Page 471 - That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself...
Page 253 - The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written. 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?
Page 298 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 467 - I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 467 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 247 - The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners, constantly working underground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric.
Page 256 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the Constitution, or of a treaty or statute of, or commission held under the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute, or commission, may be re-examined and reversed or affirmed in the Supreme Court of the United States upon a...
Page 24 - The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury.