Lecture on John Scott and John MarshallM.J. Cantwell, printer, 1898 - 30 pages |
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... England for many centuries . By that law controversies were submitted to the arbitrament of reason , not necessarily the innate reason of the particular judges or triers , but in the language of Coke " an artificial perfection of reason ...
... England for many centuries . By that law controversies were submitted to the arbitrament of reason , not necessarily the innate reason of the particular judges or triers , but in the language of Coke " an artificial perfection of reason ...
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... England . His two great rivals , Thomas Erskine and Edward Law were , respectively , in their cradles or nurses ' arms in Edinburg ; while Charles James Fox was playing the pranks of a two - year old at Oxford ; and Richard B. Sheridan ...
... England . His two great rivals , Thomas Erskine and Edward Law were , respectively , in their cradles or nurses ' arms in Edinburg ; while Charles James Fox was playing the pranks of a two - year old at Oxford ; and Richard B. Sheridan ...
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... England . At that time , John Marshall was less than 21 years of age , but was a member of a military company known as the Cul- pepper Minute Men of Virginia , of which each member wore a green hunting shirt with the inspiring words of ...
... England . At that time , John Marshall was less than 21 years of age , but was a member of a military company known as the Cul- pepper Minute Men of Virginia , of which each member wore a green hunting shirt with the inspiring words of ...
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... England . But his fame as a profound reasoner steadily advanced , until he had no superior , if any equal , in Great Britain . In 1787 he was made a local chancellor at Newcastle , and in the same year Edward Law , better known as Lord ...
... England . But his fame as a profound reasoner steadily advanced , until he had no superior , if any equal , in Great Britain . In 1787 he was made a local chancellor at Newcastle , and in the same year Edward Law , better known as Lord ...
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... England , and so she went to the Continent , and there remained until after the death of George III , and the accession of her husband to the throne , which made her titular Queen of Great Britain . At the suggestion of Sir John Leach ...
... England , and so she went to the Continent , and there remained until after the death of George III , and the accession of her husband to the throne , which made her titular Queen of Great Britain . At the suggestion of Sir John Leach ...
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Page 19 - ... of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice, the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage : the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 24 - The Judicial Department comes home in its effects to every man's fireside : it passes on his property, his reputation, his life, his all. Is it not, to the last degree important, that he should be rendered perfectly and completely independent, with nothing to influence or control him but God and his conscience?
Page 19 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is in the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 25 - 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.
Page 18 - Such, my Lords, is the case now before you ! Such is the evidence in support of this measure — evidence inadequate to prove a debt — impotent to deprive of a civil right — ridiculous to convict of the lowest offence — scandalous if brought forward to support a charge of the highest nature which the law knows — monstrous to ruin the honour, to blast the name, of an English Queen...
Page 9 - At this period he acted frequently as deputy judge advocate, and secured the warm regard of Washington. In the . winter of 1779 he was sent to Virginia to take command of a new corps to be raised by the legislature. While this subject was under discussion, he attended a course of law lectures delivered by Mr.
Page 15 - May 1 ask whom you have fixed upon ? " " Certainly," said the president ; " I have concluded to nominate a person whom it may surprise you to hear mentioned. It is a Virginia lawyer, a plain man by the name of John Marshall." He was nominated on 20 Jan., unanimously confirmed, and presided in the court at the February term, though he was still holding the office of secretary of state. He at once took, and always maintained, a commanding position in the court, not only as its nominal but as its real...
Page 14 - ... whom they entertained so much regard, sheltered with them beneath the same protecting aegis. The agitation of the subject led to the treaty of 1844. While the question of the annexation was being discussed in Congress, and in the political circles at Washington, the office of associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, made vacant by the death of Smith Thompson, of New York, in December 1843, was tendered to Mr. Wright, but declined. The motives which prompted this offer have...
Page 14 - ... mind as conquest, from whatever quarter they may come. Tell Marshall I love him, because he felt and acted as a republican, as an American.
Page 4 - ... reason is the life of the law, nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason; which is to be understood of an artificial perfection of reason, gotten by long study, observation, and experience, and not of every man's natural reason ; for, Nemo nascitur artifex.