 | Hannis Taylor - 1917 - 1038 lapas
...Court answered, in the majestic words of Mr. Justice Miller, that "No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may...the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are creations of the law and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system of government,... | |
 | Heman Gerald Chapin - 1917 - 754 lapas
...responsible.48 Furthermore the duty violated must not have been due l1iah that he is above the law. * • * All the officers of the government, from the highest...are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. * * * Shall it be said in the face of all this, and of the acknowledged right of the judiciary to decide,... | |
 | United States - 1917 - 1716 lapas
...How., 73, 78; US v. Stewart, id. 70; Marbury f. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137.) Powers of officers.—All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powers, and if they act beyond the scope of their delegated powers their... | |
 | United States - 1917 - 1716 lapas
...How., 73, 78; US v. Stewart, id. 79; Marbury f. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137.) Powers of officers.—All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powers, and if they act beyond the scope of their delegated powers their... | |
 | 1918 - 918 lapas
...the United States and it is appropriated to lawful public uses. " No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may...law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of government from the highest to the lowest are creations of the law and are bound to obey it. It is... | |
 | 1918 - 880 lapas
...the United States and it is appropriated to lawful public uses. " No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may...law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of government from the highest to the lowest are creations of the law and are bound to obey it. It is... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - 1918 - 232 lapas
...august judicial tribunal in the world, "no man in this country is so high that he is above the law. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of that law and are bound to obey it." 1 This same doctrine is applied in all the States of the Union.... | |
 | 1919 - 1090 lapas
...Curtice Bros. Co., 248 US 285, 39 Sup. Ct. 124, 63 L. Ed. — . "No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may...the law, and are bound to obey it" United States v. Le«, 106 US 196, 220, 1 Sup. Ct 240, 261 (27 L. Ed. 171). The right of possession by the Postmaster... | |
 | James Brown Scott - 1919 - 572 lapas
...contention of the United States, finely and impressively said : ' No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may...are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. ' Therefore, it is well settled, by a long line of decisions, beginning with Marbury v. Madison (1... | |
 | Frederick Albert Cleveland, Joseph Schafer - 1919 - 522 lapas
...of American public law in these words: "No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of that law and are bound to obey it." One of the oldest of our State Constitutions, that of Massachusetts... | |
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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. 
