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" No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. "
Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the Texas Bar Association - Page 129
by Texas Bar Association - 1909
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The Writings of Cassius Marcellus Clay: Including Speeches and Addresses

Cassius Marcellus Clay - History - 1848 - 550 pages
...jailors, hangmen, and grave-diggers are to be elected annually, biennially, or for a longer term of years. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are to be chosen at the polls ; the country must be harassed from day to day, and from year to year, with...
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The Law of God: As Contained in the Ten Commandments Explained and Enforced

William Swan Plumer - Summary of the Law (Theology) - 1864 - 678 pages
...anointed, and owned by the people as their king. 2 Kings xi. 12, 14. 2. It is the duty of all men to treat all the officers of the government from the highest to the lowest with respect, and to give to each the honour that is his due, never using reviling or railing language...
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The Law of God: As Contained in the Ten Commandments Explained and Enforced

William Swan Plumer - Summary of the Law (Theology) - 1864 - 648 pages
...anointed, and owned by the people as their king. 2 Kings xi. 12, 14. 2. It is the duty of all men to treat all the officers of the government from the highest to the lowest with respect, and to give to each the honour that is his due, never using reviling or railing language...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 27

Law - 1883 - 548 pages
...Chief Justice Carter. Kilboum v. Thompson, 103 U. 8.168. No man in this country is so high that be is above the law. No officer of the law may set that...highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system of governmeut, and every man who by...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 27

Law - 1883 - 552 pages
...Sergeaut-at-Arms of the House of Representatives by Chief Justice Carter. KUbourn v. Tliompson, 103 U. S.168. No man in this country is so high that he is above...the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. AD the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law aud are...
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 93

Law - 1921 - 496 pages
...militia, his action cannot be questioned by any authority or in any place.5 The language, "No man in the country is so high that he is above the law, no officer of the law may set the law at defiance with impunity," quoted from United States v. Lee," is not in conflict with the...
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The Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the ..., Volumes 21-22

Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1902 pages
...included within the survey, it seems to me a case is disclosed for the interposition of the courts. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powers, and if they act beyond the scope of those delegated powers their...
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Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 1

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 676 pages
...sergeant-at-arms of the house of representatives by Chief Justice CABTER. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 US 168. No man in this country is so high that he is above...highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system of government, and every man who by...
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Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 3

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 676 pages
...from using the means which the law gives him for the protection and enforcement of that right;" "that no man in this country is so high that he is above...highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it." Upon examination of the doctrine that, except where congress has provided, the...
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Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 109

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 840 pages
...using the means which the law gives him for the protection and enforcement of that right ; " " that no man in this country is so high that he is above...highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it." Upon examination of the doctrine that, except where Congress has provided, the...
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