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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 203

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1907 - 690 pages
...true where that fraud is practiced by a sworn prosecuting officer and the chief executive of a State. No man in this country is so high that he is above...the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. United States v. Lee, 106 US 196, 220; Burton v. United States, 202 US 344. Jurisdiction of the subject...
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The American Historical Review, Volume 13

John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1908 - 1014 pages
...of the state; United States v. Lee, to6 US, 196; the "Arlington case", in which he declared that " no man in this country is so high that he is above the law and no officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity." Three addresses delivered by...
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The Military Laws of the United States, Volume 1

United States - Military law - 1908 - 2032 pages
...How., 73, 78; US r. Stewart, ibid., 79; Marbury r. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137. l'oiri'1-н of officers. — All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powere, and if they act beyond the scope of their delegated powers their...
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Annual Report of the Corporation Commission of the State of ..., Volume 12

Oklahoma Corporation Commission - Communication and traffic - 1919 - 644 pages
...was brought against agents of the government and could not be prosecuted in the State Court, since all the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, were creatures of law, and within their proper spheres exercised only such powers as were delegated...
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The Constitutional Law of the United States, Volume 2

Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1910 - 804 pages
...process of law, or to take private property without just compensation. . . . No man in this county is so high that he is above the law. No officer of...Government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of that law and are bound to obey it. ... It cannot be, then, that when, in a suit between two citizens...
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The Constitutional Law of the United States, Volume 2

Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1910 - 900 pages
...without jnst compensation. . . . Xo man in this county is so high that he is above the law. Xo oAeer of the law may set that law at defiance, with impunity....officers of the Government, from the highest to the low aro creatures of that law and are bound to obey it. . . . It can1*', then, that when, in a suit...
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Cases on Administrative Law

Ernst Freund - Administrative law - 1911 - 716 pages
...Carter. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 US 168, 26 L. Ed. 377. Newman in this country js__£o_high that^jie is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law aF defiance witE~impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules ...

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 726 pages
...United States v. Lee, it said that "no man in this countn is so high that he is above the law," and that "all the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are crcature> of the law, and are bound to obey it." But it seems that some officers are above the law...
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Courtright's Colorado Digest: Digesting All Colorado Decisions ..., Volume 3

William Hiram Courtright, George S. Berry - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 736 pages
...adjudged valid and the unauthorized condition rejected. — Pershing v. Wolfe, 6 A. 410, 40 P. 856. (h) 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...
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The Military Laws of the United States, 1915

United States - Military law - 1915 - 816 pages
...19 How., 73, 78; US v. Stewart, id. 79; Marbury v. Madison. 1 Crunch, 137.) Powers of officers. — All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powers, and if they act beyond thy scope of their delegated powers their...
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