 | Christopher A. Anzalone - 2000 - 422 pages
...Republic, Strict interpretation Justice David Davis Ex parte Milligan, 71 US 2, 120-121 (1866) 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, but the theory of necessity on which it is... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - 2000 - 390 pages
...constitutional question begins with one of the Court's most stirring affirmations of the rule of law: The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers...protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all cireumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of... | |
 | Alan T. Nolan - 2000 - 332 pages
...parte Milligan, 18 L. Ed. 281, 295-302. risk of evil or unwise leaders, unlike Lincoln, and wrote: "No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences,...during any of the great exigencies of government." Finally, it will be recalled that Lincoln had relied on the language of the Constitution's authorization... | |
 | John E. Semonche - 2000 - 532 pages
...afforded by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, Davis praised "our ancestors" for making the Constitution "a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, . . . [that] covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all... | |
 | John W. Johnson - 2001 - 608 pages
...principles of liberty, is not worth the cost of preservation." But his most often quoted maxim was that "the Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers...of men, at all times, and under all circumstances." He then rejected the doctrine, whose results would be "pernicious," that any provisions of the Constitution... | |
 | John V. Denson - 2001 - 830 pages
..."during the war, his powers must be without limit." The Court unanimously disagreed, proclaiming, The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace. . . . No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of 146Forrest... | |
 | George P. Fletcher - 2009 - 272 pages
...the most compelling language ever devoted to the sanctity of the Constitution in times of war: 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. In the aftermath of September 11 many were... | |
 | Clinton Rossiter - 346 pages
...schools teach, does not recognize any implied presidential power to suspend the Constitution: "The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers...of men, at all times, and under all circumstances." In short, "emergency does not increase constitutional power nor diminish constitutional restriction"... | |
 | Nancy Chang - 2002 - 172 pages
...on to declare the Constitution "a law for rulers and people, equally in times of war and peace" that "covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances."71 B. THE PALMER RAIDS OF WORLD WAR I The ruling in Ex Parte Milligan had long been... | |
 | Hunter S. Thompson - 2003 - 384 pages
...years ago, the Supreme Court reminded those in power: The Constitution of the United States is the law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace,...pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the whit of man than that any of [the Constitution's] provisions can be suspended during any of the great... | |
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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. 
