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, 1903 |
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... republic . In the Nash or Robbins case he maintained in an unanswerable argu- ment that the case came distinctly under the Jay treaty ; that it constituted a question exclusively for the execu- tive and not for judicial decision ; and ...
... republic . In the Nash or Robbins case he maintained in an unanswerable argu- ment that the case came distinctly under the Jay treaty ; that it constituted a question exclusively for the execu- tive and not for judicial decision ; and ...
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... republic shall endure . Oration of Charles J. Bonaparte on Marshall as Lawyer and Judge , and Marshall's Conception of the Judicial Office . For all time , Marshall is our great Chief Justice : as such he lives to - day in American ...
... republic shall endure . Oration of Charles J. Bonaparte on Marshall as Lawyer and Judge , and Marshall's Conception of the Judicial Office . For all time , Marshall is our great Chief Justice : as such he lives to - day in American ...
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... republic - so early that its officers had not yet learned to divest themselves of the pomps of sovereignty . It was soon after he became Chief Justice that Mr. Jef- ferson , who represented another school of politics , is said to have ...
... republic - so early that its officers had not yet learned to divest themselves of the pomps of sovereignty . It was soon after he became Chief Justice that Mr. Jef- ferson , who represented another school of politics , is said to have ...
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... republic which many of its founders thought they had established never had a political existence , and , if not in the beginning , at least thirty - five years ago , gave place to a splendid im- perialism which went forth conquering and ...
... republic which many of its founders thought they had established never had a political existence , and , if not in the beginning , at least thirty - five years ago , gave place to a splendid im- perialism which went forth conquering and ...
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... , with a central government strong enough to suppress lawlessness within , and to command respect abroad . Could the people be made to understand and accept such a Republic ? Could the States be induced John Marshall Memorial . 98.
... , with a central government strong enough to suppress lawlessness within , and to command respect abroad . Could the people be made to understand and accept such a Republic ? Could the States be induced John Marshall Memorial . 98.
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Page 507 - State, having its own government, and endowed with all the functions essential to separate and independent existence," and that "without the States in union, there could be no such political body as the United States." Not only, therefore, can there be no loss of separate and independent autonomy to the States, through their union under the Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the States, and the maintenance of their governments, are as much within the design...
Page 363 - ... peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none: the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies: the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home, and safety abroad...
Page 348 - If, then, the courts are to regard the Constitution— and the Constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature — the Constitution, and not such ordinary act, must govern the case to which they both apply.
Page 463 - 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 249 - 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 375 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter ! — all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement...
Page 294 - 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 459 - 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 459 - 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 521 - I have always thought, from my earliest youth till now, that the greatest scourge an angry Heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary.