 | Henry Churchill Semple - Divine right of kings - 1920 - 226 pages
...property as officers and agents of the United States and it is appropriated to lawful public uses. " No man in this country is so high that he is above...law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of government from the highest to the lowest are creations of the law and are bound to obey it. It is... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby, Lindsay Rogers - Political science - 1921 - 598 pages
...may be made that it possessed no such power. . . . No man in this country is so high that he is set above the law. No officer of the Law may set that...creatures of the Law and are bound to obey it. It is the supreme power in all systems of government, and every man who, by accepting office, participates in... | |
 | Charles Warren - Law - 1922 - 562 pages
...did not apply when suit was brought against Government officials in unlawful possession of property. "No man in this country is so high that he is above...are creatures of the law and are bound to obey it." "Shall it be said," he asked, "that the Courts cannot give a remedy when the citizen has been deprived... | |
 | ARTHUR N. HOLCOMBE - 1923 - 536 pages
...or property without due process of law, or to take private property without just compensation. . . . No man in this country is so high that he is above...the government, from the highest to the lowest. are the creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system of government,... | |
 | Frederic Jesup Stimson - Constitutional law - 1923 - 264 pages
...possession of the military authorities of the United States. Justice Miller said (p. 220) in the opinion: "No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. . . . Shall it be said . . . that the courts cannot give a remedy when a citizen has been deprived... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1924 - 530 pages
...branch of the Government, however clear it may be made that the executive possessed no such power. . . . No man in this country is so high that he is above...creatures of the law and are bound to obey it." It scarcely need be said, however, that, in determining the legal validity of orders given by the President,... | |
 | Manuel Luis Quezon, Camilo Osias - Philippines - 1924 - 250 pages
...lawsi of the land. The Supreme Court of the United States in the case of US vs. Lee, 106 US 196, said: "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,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 970 pages
...Arlington Case, (US v. Lee,) 106 US 196, 1 Sup. Ct. Rep. 240, the court, by Mr. Justice MILLKR, say: "No man in this country is so high that he is above...bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our government, and every man who, by accepting office, participates in its functions, is only the more... | |
 | Charles Warren - Constitutional history - 1925 - 328 pages
...jurisdiction of the suit against these Federal officers, Justice Miller, speaking for the Court, said : "No man in this country is so high that he is above...are creatures of the law and are bound to obey it . . . Shall it be said . . . that the Courts cannot give a remedy when the citizen has been deprived... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1924 - 1096 pages
...often and so clearly overruled in previous well-considered decisions." And on principle as follows: "No man in this country is so high that he is above...the law. No officer of the law may set that law at deflauce with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures... | |
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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. 
