 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...  Annual Report of the Illinois State Bar Association - Page 163by Illinois State Bar Association - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1908 - 1082 pages
...nothing to control him but God and his own conscience ? I have always thought, from my earliest youth to now. that the greatest scourge an angry Heaven ever...upon an ungrateful and sinning people was an ignorant or corrupt or dependent judiciary." The scope of influence and power of the courts is now no less circumscribed... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - Virginia - 1883 - 1052 pages
...late chief-justice, in which he deprecated ' an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary ' as ' the greatest scourge an angry heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and sinning people,' and implored us not to ' draw down this curse upon Virginia ;' none struggled more ardently than I... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - 1883 - 1060 pages
...late chief-jmtice, in which he deprecated ' an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary ' «* 'the greatest scourge an angry heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and sinning people,' and implored us not to ' draw down this curse upon Virginia' none struggled more ardently than I did... | |
 | Biography - 1884 - 400 pages
...but saying that there is and can be and ought to be no such thing as judicial independence ? . . . I have always thought, from my earliest youth until...an ungrateful and sinning people was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary. Our 65 ancestors thought so; we thought so until very lately;... | |
 | William Henry Rawle - Washington (D.C.) - 1884 - 48 pages
...ages, let us hope not with prophetic foreboding : " 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." Something has here been said... | |
 | Judges - 1884 - 112 pages
...ages, let us hope not with prophetic foreboding: " 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." Something has here been said... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1406 pages
...security which it is the object of government and society to give." In the words of the immortal Marshall, "The greatest scourge an angry heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people was an ignorant, corrupt, or a dependent judiciary." Let us fervently hope no such... | |
 | Allan Bowie Magruder - Biography & Autobiography - 1885 - 308 pages
...substance but saying that there is and can be and ought to be no such thing as judicial independence. . . . I have always thought, from my earliest youth until...an ungrateful and sinning people was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary. Our ancestors thought so ; we thought so till very lately ; and... | |
 | Allan Bowie Magruder - 1885 - 314 pages
...substance but saying that there is and can be and ought to be no such thing as judicial independence. . . . I have always thought, from my earliest youth until...an ungrateful and sinning people was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary. Our ancestors thought so ; we thought so till very lately ; and... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 844 pages
...ages, let us hope not with prophetic foreboding : " 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." Something has here been said... | |
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