 | Frank J. Goodnow - Administrative law - 1906 - 740 pages
...legislative branches of the government. See Ex parte Milligan, 4 Wall. 2; Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 US 168. No man in this country is so high that he is above the law No officer of the law may set the law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest,... | |
 | John Goode - Political Science - 1906 - 284 pages
...deserve to live forever and to be engraven on the mind and the heart of every citizen when he said : 'No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. Every officer of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, is but the creature of the law and... | |
 | John Goode - Political Science - 1906 - 282 pages
...deserve to live forever and to be engraven on the mind and the heart of every citizen when he said : 'No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. Every officer of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, is but the creature of the law and... | |
 | United States - Military law - 1908 - 2032 pages
...How., 73, 78; US r. Stewart, ibid., 79; Marbury r. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137. l'oiri'1-н of officers. — All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powere, and if they act beyond the scope of their delegated powers their... | |
 | Oklahoma Corporation Commission - Communication and traffic - 1919 - 644 pages
...was brought against agents of the government and could not be prosecuted in the State Court, since all the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, were creatures of law, and within their proper spheres exercised only such powers as were delegated... | |
 | William Draper Lewis - Judges - 1909 - 650 pages
...doubts that he is right. What could be more eloquent than when he writes, in United States vs. Lee: 40 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... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1910 - 404 pages
...so well expressed by the United States Supreme Court, that I ask your attention to their utterance : "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... | |
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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. 
