 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
 | United States. Department of Justice - Administrative law - 1926 - 686 pages
...United States. His authority is delegated to him by Congress. The principle is well stated as follows: "All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powers, who must act within legally prescribed limitations, otherwise their... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1214 pages
...mpni. See Er piirle Mi'lffKin. 71 US 4 Wall. 2 f 18:2*1]." Eilbourn v. T/wmpiox, 103 US IGs [2<i:.477J. "No man in this country is so high that he is above tbe law. No officer of (he law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All tbe officers of the... | |
 | Charles Warren - Constitutional law - 1927 - 100 pages
...or by the written Constitution. Enforcing that principle, the Supreme Court of the United States has said : "No man in this country is so high that he...the law may set that law at defiance with impunity." On this principle, the Court has held that not even a member of the Cabinet was exempt from legal process,... | |
 | Maximo Manguiat Kalaw - Philippines - 1927 - 526 pages
...American constitutional history. Mr. Justice Miller, in the case of US vs. Lee (i) has very convincingly said: "No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set the law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest,... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 476 pages
...militia, his action cannot be questioned by any authority or in any placed 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... | |
 | Mississippi State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 168 pages
...peculiarly within the province of the judicial branch of the Government, and where it was declared that no man in this country is so high that he is above the law. Arlington, the estate of Robert E. Lee, had been seized and converted to the use of the Government... | |
 | Labor - 1921 - 374 pages
...know and feel its power. Our Supreme Court speaking with all the powers of the Constitution, says that no man in this country is so high that he is above the law, and also says that the only supreme power in our system of government is the law. * * * "The citizens... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Appropriations - 1934 - 1782 pages
...previous servitude. 2. Supremacy of iaw.—The Government of the United States is one of laws, flOtof men. No man in this country is so high that he is above the law, and none so humble or so unfortunate as to be beyond the pale of its protection. The law is not made... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1936 - 310 pages
...servitude. 2. Supremacy of law. — The Government of the United States is one of laws, not of men. No man in this country is so high that he is above the law, and none so humble or so unfortunate as to be beyond the pale of its protection. The law is not made... | |
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