 | Law - 1883 - 552 pages
...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 in our system...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... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 548 pages
...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 890 pages
...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...upon the exercise of the authority which it gives." In that case the court reaffirms the doctrines of Osborn v. Bank of the United States, 9 Wheat. 738.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 1674 pages
...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...upon the exercise of the authority which it gives." In that case the court reaffirms the doctrines of Osborn v. Bank of US 9 Wheat. 738. The latter was... | |
 | Law - 1903 - 658 pages
...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...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 - Political science - 1889 - 246 pages
...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 government. — Mr. JUSTICE MILLKR, in United States v. 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 - History - 1891 - 738 pages
...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...strongly bound to submit to that supremacy and to Copyright, 1880, by the Forum Publishing Company. observe the limitations which it imposes upon the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 770 pages
...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...functions, is only the more strongly bound to submit to the supremacy, and to observe the limitations which it imposes upon the exercise of the authority which... | |
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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... 
