Remarks of Richard H. Dana, Jr., Esq: Before the Committee on Federal Relations, on the Proposed Removal of Edward G. Loring, Esq. from the Office of Judge of Probate. March 5, 1855The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School Libraryocm24877988The removal of Loring was sought because of his decision returning Anthony Burns to slavery.Boston: A. Mudge, 1855. 28 p.; 21 cm. |
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... held office so long as they behaved themselves well . If the King was to determine when they behaved themselves well , nothing was gained for liberty . But official misconduct was a fact in its nature to be judi- cially ascertained ...
... held office so long as they behaved themselves well . If the King was to determine when they behaved themselves well , nothing was gained for liberty . But official misconduct was a fact in its nature to be judi- cially ascertained ...
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... held your law unconstitutional ? If you were to remove the judges because they held the Maine liquor law unconstitutional , or the law for the annexa- tion of Charlestown , and put in judges who agreed with you , would it not be a ...
... held your law unconstitutional ? If you were to remove the judges because they held the Maine liquor law unconstitutional , or the law for the annexa- tion of Charlestown , and put in judges who agreed with you , would it not be a ...
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... held office too long , judges who have disappointed the public , judges who have failed in many of the qualifications which make them useful and acceptable , but the power of removal by address has not been resorted 10 REMARKS OF R. H. ...
... held office too long , judges who have disappointed the public , judges who have failed in many of the qualifications which make them useful and acceptable , but the power of removal by address has not been resorted 10 REMARKS OF R. H. ...
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... held unpopular sentiments ought to be removed by address . If this principle be admitted , every Legislature in its turn would ostracise all political opponents within its reach , till the power of legislative removal became as odious ...
... held unpopular sentiments ought to be removed by address . If this principle be admitted , every Legislature in its turn would ostracise all political opponents within its reach , till the power of legislative removal became as odious ...
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... held his office many years in the public eye , and during the last year the attempt at his removal has been determined upon . Yet no one act has been brought against him , in his office . Does it not savor a little of artificial ...
... held his office many years in the public eye , and during the last year the attempt at his removal has been determined upon . Yet no one act has been brought against him , in his office . Does it not savor a little of artificial ...
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Page 10 - ... those of piety, justice, moderation, temperance, industry, and frugality, are absolutely necessary to preserve the advantages of liberty, and to maintain a free government. The people ought, consequently, to have a particular attention to all those principles, in the choice of their officers and representatives...
Page 3 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Page 6 - It is essential to the preservation of the rights of every individual, his life, liberty, property and character, that there be an impartial interpretation of the laws and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial and independent, as the lot of humanity will admit.
Page 10 - ... justice, moderation, temperance, industry and frugality, are absolutely necessary to preserve the advantages of liberty, and to maintain a free government. The people ought, consequently, to have a particular attention to all those principles, in the choice of their officers and representatives: and they have a right to require of their lawgivers and magistrates an exact and constant observance of them, in the formation and execution of the laws necessary for the good administration of the commonwealth.
Page 6 - In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people have a right, at such periods and in, such manner as they shall establish by their frame of government, to cause their public officers to return to private life; and to fill up vacant places by certain and regular elections and appointments.
Page 7 - All judicial officers, duly appointed, commissioned, and sworn, shall hold their offices during good behavior, excepting such concerning whom there is different provision made in this constitution ; provided, nevertheless, the governor, with consent of the Council, may remove them upon the address of both houses of the legislature.
Page 11 - Its repose may be the preservation of its existence; and its existence may be the means of saving the constitution itself, on an occasion worthy of bringing it forth.
Page 17 - The conduct of Judge Loring has been considerate and humane. If a man is willing to execute the law, and be an instrument of sending back a man into slavery under such a law, he could not act better in his office than Judge Loring.
Page 10 - A FREQUENT recurrence to the fundamental principles of- the constitution, and a constant adherence to those of piety, justice, moderation, temperance, industry, and frugality, are absolutely necessary to preserve the advantages of liberty, and to maintain a free government...
Page 11 - Lastly, there were the systematic opponents of change, who think it " better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of;" and the advocates of peculiar crotchets, who view every subject through their own telescope.