 | George Henry Shibley - 1904 - 124 pages
...principles of a republic existed. The supreme court of the United States declared: The Constitution is a law for rulers and people equally in war and...during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism, but the theory of necessity on which it is... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown - 1904 - 490 pages
...of the government in times of war. The leading thoughts of Mr. Justice Davis's decision are: " The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people in war and in peace and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men at all times and... | |
 | 1906 - 1164 pages
...constantly before us the words of the Supreme Court of the T'nlted States. "The Constitution * * * is a law for rulers and people, equally In war and in peace, and covers witli the shield of Its protection ail classes of men, at all times, and under ail circumstances. No... | |
 | Morris Friedman - 1907 - 260 pages
...then quotes the following from an opinion of Judge Davis of the United States Supreme Court : "The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers...during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism Wicked men, ambitious of power, with hatred... | |
 | 1918 - 954 pages
...by implication are, so far as the courts have thus far spoken, also few, but of high importance. The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers...be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.1* The preamble of the Constitution must also be considered in this connection. "We the... | |
 | 1918 - 962 pages
...by implication are, so far as the courts have thus far spoken, also few, but of high importance. The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers...be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.12 The preamble of the Constitution must also be considered in this connection. "We the... | |
 | David Miller DeWitt - 1909 - 336 pages
...and the commission in the case of Mrs. Surratt : "The Constitution of the United States is a law foe rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and...any of its provisions can be suspended during any of great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism." "It is not... | |
 | 1910 - 370 pages
...history of the world had taught them that what was done in the past might be attempted in the future. The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers...of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. Nodoctrine, involvingmore pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1971 - 1052 pages
...Power to Commit Forces to Combat, 81 Harv. L. Rev. 1771 (1968). 2 Thn majority in MUligan stated: "The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers...of men, at all times, and under all circumstances." 4 Wall., at 120-121. DOUGLAS, J., dissenting 400 US thority to act in these circumstances. Both Powell... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1910 - 558 pages
...Amendment. 8 In the words of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Constitution, while it stands, is " A law for rulers and people, equally in war and...classes of men, at all times and under all circumstances " (Judge Cooley's " Principles of Constitutional Law," p. 33). CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES xix... | |
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The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. 
