...Abraham Lincoln — I will close with this. He said the — this was in his first inaugural address. The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon final questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court,...

...seeks to close the door on any opening by which the people might attempt to influence the course of "the policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people," as Abraham Lincoln once feared.2" The Court, according to Casey, must "speak before all others for...

...position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court....The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of...decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned...

...with the chance that it may be overruled and never become precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice....confess, that if the policy of the Government upon the vital questions 86 affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the...

...Fathers said it was and it cannot be amended without the will of the people. President Lincoln warned, "If the policy of the government upon vital questions...irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court ... the people will have ceased to be their own rulers." Abraham Lincoln also warned, "Don't interfere with...

...with the chance that it may be over-ruled, and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne, than could the evils of a different practice....must confess that if the policy of the government is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary...

...Scott. Do you share President Lincoln's concerns that I am going to quote here from his first inaugural: "If the policy of the Government upon vital questions...affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court the instant they are made in ordinary litigation, the people will...

...irredeemably partisan when taking sides on that issue. It led Abraham Lincoln to warn, "If the policy of government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court . . . the people will have ceased to be their own rulers."12 Lincoln's...

...Dred Scott?), but he would not allow "erroneous" decisions and their "evil effect" to fix irrevocably "the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people." In a moving peroration, Lincoln pleaded with his native Border South and men of patriotic goodwill...

...all paralel [sic] cases, by all other departments of the government." Nonetheless, Lincoln reasoned, "at the same time the candid citizen must confess...decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made . . . the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned...