 | 1821 - 438 páginas
...would be treason to the constitution. Questions may occur whioh we would gladly avoid; but we cannot avoid them. All we can do is to exercise our best judgment, and conscientiously to perform our duty. In doing this, on the present occasion, we find this tribunal invested with appellate... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1821 - 716 páginas
...would be treason to the constitution. Questions may occur which we would gladly avoid ; but we cannot avoid them. All we can do is, to exercise our best judgment, and conscientiously to perform our duty. In doing this, on the present occasion, we . find this tribunal invested with... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 páginas
...would be treason to the constitution. Questions may occur which we would gladly avoid ; but we cannot avoid them. All we can do is, to exercise our best judgment, and conscientiously to perform our duty. In doing this, on the present occasion, we find this tribunal invested with appellate... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 páginas
...would be treason to the constitution^ Questions may occur which we would gladly avoid ; but we cannot avoid them. .All we can do is, to exercise our best judgment, and conscientiously to perform our duty.j In doing this, on the present occasion, we find this tribunal invested with appellate... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1871 - 818 páginas
...would be treason to the constitution. Questions may occur which we would gladly avoid, but we cannot avoid them. All we can do is, to exercise our best judgment and conscientiously perform our duty." — Cohens v. Virginia, 6 Wheat. 264, 404. At the same time, this high power is to be exercised with... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 674 páginas
...would be treason to the Constitution. Questions may occur which we would gladly avoid ; but we cannot avoid them. All we can do is to exercise our best judgment, and conscientiously to perform our duty. In doing this, on the present occasion, we find this tribunal invested with appellate... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 594 páginas
...would be treason to the constitution. Questions may occur which we would gladly avoid ; but we cannot avoid them. All we can do is, to exercise our best judgment, and conscientiously to perform our duty. In doing this on the present occasion, we find this tribunal invested with appellate... | |
 | 1870 - 546 páginas
...would be treason to the Constitution. Questions may occur which we would gladly avoid, but we cannot avoid them. All we can do is to exercise our best judgment, and conscientiously to perform our duty." In another case this great judge said, " the legislative, executive and judicial... | |
 | 1870 - 546 páginas
...would be treason to the Constitution. Questions may occur I which we would gladly avoid, but we cannot avoid them. All we can do is to exercise our best judgment, and conscientiously to perform our duty." In another case this great judge said, "the legislative, executive and judicial... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1871 - 272 páginas
...would be treason to the Constitution. Questions may occur which we would gladly avoid, but we cannot avoid them. All we can do is to exercise our best judgment, and conscientiously to perform our duty." In another case this great judge said: " The legislative, executive and judicial... | |
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... be attended. we must decide it if it be brought before us. We have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given, than to usurp that which is not given. The one or the other would be treason to the constitution. Questions may... 
