...Government upon the vital questions 86 affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are...Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the Court or the Judges. This is the only substantial dispute...

...Government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decision of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in...resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.59 The most scandalous attack would come from William H. Seward, the senator from New York....

...constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court....The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions...decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned...

...Fathers said it was and it cannot be amended without the will of the people. President Lincoln warned, "If the policy of the government upon vital questions...irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court ... the people will have ceased to be their own rulers." Abraham Lincoln also warned, "Don't interfere with...

...questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decision of the Supreme Court, ... the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers,...resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.2* Those of us who have attended law school have been conditioned to be judge-lovers and politician-despisers...

...a matter to be decided by ordinary voters and their elected representatives. Otherwise, he warned, "the people will have ceased to be their own rulers,...practically resigned their government into the hands of an eminent tribunal."'5 Once civil war began, Lincoln was unwilling to abolish slavery by executive...

...Scott. Do you share President Lincoln's concerns that I am going to quote here from his first inaugural: "If the policy of the Government upon vital questions...affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court the instant they are made in ordinary litigation, the people will...

...irredeemably partisan when taking sides on that issue. It led Abraham Lincoln to warn, "If the policy of government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court . . . the people will have ceased to be their own rulers."12 Lincoln's...

...Dred Scott?), but he would not allow "erroneous" decisions and their "evil effect" to fix irrevocably "the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people." In a moving peroration, Lincoln pleaded with his native Border South and men of patriotic goodwill...

...borne than could the evils of a different practice. At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions...government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Nor is there, in this view, any assault upon the court, or the judges. It is a duty from which they...