 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1906 - 710 pages
...in public stations as well as over all the people. " No man in this country, " this court has said, "is so high that he is above the law. No officer of...highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and arc bound to obey it. " United States v. Lee, 106 US 196, 220. Nothing in the relations existing between... | |
 | Frank J. Goodnow - Administrative law - 1906 - 740 pages
...legislative branches of the government. See Ex parte Milligan, 4 Wall. 2; Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 US 168. No man in this country is so high that he is above the law No officer of the law may set the law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest,... | |
 | John Goode - Political Science - 1906 - 282 pages
...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... | |
 | John Goode - Political Science - 1906 - 284 pages
...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... | |
 | United States - Military law - 1908 - 2032 pages
...How., 73, 78; US r. Stewart, ibid., 79; Marbury r. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137. l'oiri'1-н of officers. — All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powere, and if they act beyond the scope of their delegated powers their... | |
 | Oklahoma Corporation Commission - Communication and traffic - 1919 - 644 pages
...was brought against agents of the government and could not be prosecuted in the State Court, since all the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, were creatures of law, and within their proper spheres exercised only such powers as were delegated... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1910 - 804 pages
...process of law, or to take private property without just compensation. . . . No man in this county is so high that he is above the law. No officer of...Government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of that law and are bound to obey it. ... It cannot be, then, that when, in a suit between two citizens... | |
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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. 
