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" All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and are bound to obey it. "
Trends in Long-term Care: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, First Session - Page 629
by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Long-Term Care - 1971
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The American Historical Review, Volume 13

John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1908 - 998 pages
...the state : United States v. Lee, 106 US, 196; the " Arlington case ", in which he declared that " no man in this country is so high that he is above the law and no officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity." Three addresses delivered by...
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Individual Freedom: The Germ of National Progress and Permanence, an Address ...

Thomas Francis Bayard - 1896 - 52 pages
...most distinguished members, now no more (Mr. Justice Miller), repeated this great principle : — " No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. 26 No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the Government,...
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Examination of the Civil Service and Inquiry as to Certain Discharges at the ...

1898 - 1200 pages
...the record the opinion of Justice Miller in the case of Lee v. The United States. It is as follows: " No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. >"o officer of the law may act that law at defiance with impunity. All the officials of the Government,...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 194

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1904 - 722 pages
...that this court announced an incontrovertible proposition when, in United States v. Lee, it said that "no man in this country is so high that he is above the law," and that "all the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the...
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Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in ...

United States. Patent Office - 1905 - 854 pages
...this Court announced an incontrovertible proposition when, in United States r. Lee, it said that " no man in this country is so high that he is above the law," and that " all the officers of the Government, from the highast to the lowest, are creatures of the...
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The Law of Torts: A Concise Treatise on the Civil Liability at Common Law ...

Francis Marion Burdick - 1905 - 604 pages
...and prosecuted the appeal to the Supreme Court. In the prevailing opinion. Justice Miller declares: " 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 the law, and are...
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Recollections of a Lifetime

John Goode - 1906 - 282 pages
...which 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...
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Recollections of a Lifetime

John Goode - 1906 - 284 pages
...which 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...
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The American Historical Review, Volume 13

John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1908 - 1014 pages
...of the state; United States v. Lee, to6 US, 196; the "Arlington case", in which he declared that " no man in this country is so high that he is above the law and no officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity." Three addresses delivered by...
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Prussian Political Philosophy: Its Principles and Implications

Westel Woodbury Willoughby - 1918 - 232 pages
...declared by the Supreme Court of the United States, the most 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...
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