 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 840 pages
...using the means which the law gives him for the protection and enforcement of that right ; " " that no man in this country is so high that he is above...are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it." Upon examination of the doctrine that, except where Congress has provided, the United States cannot... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1906 - 702 pages
...stations as well as over all the people. " No man in this country, " this court has said, "is so liigh that he is above the law. No officer of the law may...are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. " United States v. Lee, 106 US 196, 220. Nothing in the relations existing between a Senator, Representative... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 1086 pages
...of Representatives by Chief Justice Cartter. Kitbourn v. Thompson, 103 U. 8., 168 [XXVI., 8771. Nip man in this country is so high that he is above the...the law may set that law at defiance, with impunity. AH the officers of the pQovernment, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and arc... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1888 - 764 pages
...and both were intended to be enforced by the judiciary as a co-ordinate department of the government. No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law can set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the law, from the highest to the lowest,... | |
 | Abbott Lawrence Lowell - Political science - 1889 - 246 pages
...social compact shall instantly be made an article of the state religion. V. THE LIMITS OP SOVEREIGNTY. No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that Jaw at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 952 pages
...patent title was fraudulent and void. Morton v. Nebraska, 88 US 21 Wall. 060 (22 L. ed. 039). All of the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powers, and if they act ix>yond the scope of those powers their acts do not... | |
 | Law - 1894 - 260 pages
...said Mr. Justice Miller, delivering the judgment of the Supreme Court in US v. Lee, 106 US, 196, 220, "is so high that he is above the law. No officer of...are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it." In these great, vital and fundamental respects I insist that the law of England and America is far... | |
 | Gilbert John Clark - Law - 1895 - 434 pages
...cited." — Said to a lawyer who was citing the opinion of an inferior court. No Man Higher Than the Law. "No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law in defiance with impunity. All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are... | |
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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. 
