 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 the creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it.  Success and How to Attain It - Page 151edited by - 2004 - 448 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Cassius Marcellus Clay - History - 1848 - 550 pages
...jailors, hangmen, and grave-diggers are to be elected annually, biennially, or for a longer term of years. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are to be chosen at the polls ; the country must be harassed from day to day, and from year to year, with... | |
 | William Swan Plumer - Summary of the Law (Theology) - 1864 - 648 pages
...anointed, and owned by the people as their king. 2 Kings xi. 12, 14. 2. It is the duty of all men to treat all the officers of the government from the highest to the lowest with respect, and to give to each the honour that is his due, never using reviling or railing language... | |
 | William Swan Plumer - Summary of the Law (Theology) - 1864 - 678 pages
...anointed, and owned by the people as their king. 2 Kings xi. 12, 14. 2. It is the duty of all men to treat all the officers of the government from the highest to the lowest with respect, and to give to each the honour that is his due, never using reviling or railing language... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 552 pages
...Sergeaut-at-Arms of the House of Representatives by Chief Justice Carter. KUbourn v. Tliompson, 103 U. S.168. No man in this country is so high that he is above...the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. AD the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law aud are... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 496 pages
...militia, his action cannot be questioned by any authority or in any place.5 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1902 pages
...included within the survey, it seems to me a case is disclosed for the interposition of the courts. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powers, and if they act beyond the scope of those delegated powers their... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 1086 pages
...of Representatives by Chief Justice Cartter. Kitbourn v. Thompson, 103 U. 8., 168 [XXVI., 8771. Nip man in this country is so high that he is above the...the law may set that law at defiance, with impunity. AH the officers of the pQovernment, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and arc... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1888 - 764 pages
...and both were intended to be enforced by the judiciary as a co-ordinate department of the government. No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law can set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the law, from the highest to the lowest,... | |
 | Abbott Lawrence Lowell - Political science - 1889 - 246 pages
...social compact shall instantly be made an article of the state religion. V. THE LIMITS OP SOVEREIGNTY. No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that Jaw at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 952 pages
...patent title was fraudulent and void. Morton v. Nebraska, 88 US 21 Wall. 060 (22 L. ed. 039). All of the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powers, and if they act ix>yond the scope of those powers their acts do not... | |
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