 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1242 pages
...and Clarence S. Darrow argued the cause, and, with Mr. John H. Murphy, filed a brief for appellant : No man in this country is so high that he is above...are creatures of the law and are bound to obey it. United States v. Lee, 106 US 196-220, 27 L. ed. 171-182, 1 Sup. Ct. Rep. 240; Burton v. United States,... | |
 | George Arthur Malcolm - Constitutional law - 1926 - 812 pages
...freedom prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself." ' Mr. Justice Miller said in another case: "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,... | |
 | Francis Marion Burdick - Torts - 1926 - 740 pages
...and prosecuted the appeal to the Supreme Court. In the prevailing opinion, Justice Miller declares: "No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - Administrative law - 1926 - 686 pages
...United States. His authority is delegated to him by Congress. The principle is well stated as follows: "All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powers, who must act within legally prescribed limitations, otherwise their... | |
 | Francis Marion Burdick - Torts - 1926 - 746 pages
...prosecuted the appeal to the Supreme Court. In the prevailing opinion, Justice Miller declares: "Xo man in this country is so high that he is above the law. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1214 pages
...mpni. See Er piirle Mi'lffKin. 71 US 4 Wall. 2 f 18:2*1]." Eilbourn v. T/wmpiox, 103 US IGs [2<i:.477J. "No man in this country is so high that he is above tbe law. No officer of (he law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All tbe officers of the... | |
 | Charles Warren - Constitutional law - 1927 - 100 pages
...the written Constitution. Enforcing that principle, the Supreme Court of the United States has said : "No man in this country is so high that he is above...the law may set that law at defiance with impunity." On this principle, the Court has held that not even a member of the Cabinet was exempt from legal process,... | |
 | Maximo Manguiat Kalaw - Philippines - 1927 - 526 pages
...constitutional history. Mr. Justice Miller, in the case of US vs. Lee (i) has very convincingly 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 - 1921 - 476 pages
...militia, his action cannot be questioned by any authority or in any placed The language, "No man in the country is so high that he is above the law, no officer of the law may set the law at defiance with impunity," quoted from United States v. Lee," is not in conflict with the... | |
 | Mississippi State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 168 pages
...peculiarly within the province of the judicial branch of the Government, and where it was declared that no man in this country is so high that he is above the law. Arlington, the estate of Robert E. Lee, had been seized and converted to the use of the Government... | |
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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. 
