 | 1883 - 552 pages
...impunity. AD the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law aud are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power...and every man who by accepting office participates iu its functions is only the more strongly bound to submit to that supremacy, and to observe the limitations... | |
 | 1883 - 548 pages
...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. It is the only supreme power in our system of governmeut, and every man who by accepting office participates in its functions is only the more strongly... | |
 | 1903 - 658 pages
...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. It...limitations which it imposes upon the exercise of the authoritv which it gives. Courts of justice are established, riot only to decide upon the controverted... | |
 | Abbott Lawrence Lowell - 1889 - 250 pages
...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. It...the only supreme power in our system of government. — Mr. JUSTICE MILLER, in United States «. Lee, 106 US 196. AMONG the theories of jurists there is,... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, Henry Goddard Leach, George Henry Payne, D. G. Redmond - 1891 - 738 pages
...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. It...strongly bound to submit to that supremacy and to Copyright, 1880, by the Forum Publishing Company. observe the limitations which it imposes upon the... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1893 - 1410 pages
...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. It...limitations which it imposes upon the exercise of the authoriy which it gives. " Courts of justice are established, not only to decide upon the controverted... | |
 | 1896 - 848 pages
...defiance with impunity. All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the [30] lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. It...government, and every man who, by accepting office, [30] participates in its functions, is only the more strongly bound to submit to that supremacy, and... | |
 | 1898 - 1200 pages
...the officials of the Government, from tbe highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and bouud to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system...office participates in its functions, is only the more bound to submit to that supremacy and to observe the limitations which it imposes upon the exercise... | |
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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. It is... 
