| United States. Department of the Army - Contracts - 1962 - 576 pages
...a military fort and another into a cemetery. * * *" [Id., 106 US at page 219, 1 S.Ct. at page 260.] "No man in this country is so high that he is above...are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. • * *" [Id., 106 US at page 220, 1 S. Ct. at page 261.] "It cannot be, then, that when, in a suit... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - United States - 1963 - 598 pages
...assumption that all individuals, whatever their position in government, are subject to federal law: "No man in this country is so high that he is above...law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All Officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound... | |
| United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress - 1945 - 396 pages
...laws and not of men"! Congress itself has obeyed the courts.322 Long since the Supreme Court said that "no officer of the law may set that law at defiance...lowest are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it."323 This has been the premise on which courts have repeatedly issued their mandates to administrative... | |
| United States. Department of the Treasury - Finance, Public - 1918 - 776 pages
...novel fashion outside of the lawful procedure. In United States v. Lee (106 US, 196, 220) it was said: No man in this country is so high that he is above...are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. I hold (a) that the appraisements by the acting appraisers at Ranier were made in conformity with law... | |
| Pennsylvania Bar Association - Bar associations - 1897 - 396 pages
...the following propositions seem to be sound. Justice Miller, in Lee vs. The United States, says : " No man in this country is so high that he is above...may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officials of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and bound to... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1971 - 662 pages
...laws and not of men"! Congress itself has obeyed the courts.822 Long since the Supreme Court said that "no officer of the law may set that law at defiance...lowest are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it."*2* This has been the premise on which courts have repeatedly issued their mandates to administrative... | |
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