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. Congress. Senate. Impeachment Trial Committee - Judges - 1986 - 1076 pages
...Supreme Court stated in United States v. Lee, 106 US 1%, 220, 1 S-Ct 240, 260, 27 L.Ed. 171 (1882): No man in this country is so high that he is above...officer of the law may set that law at defiance with determine whether or not the person should be indicted and tried. I believe that we want to avoid in... | |
| Mary L. Volcansek - Law - 1993 - 214 pages
...prosecution was rejected because it ran counter to "another treasured value of our constitutional system: no man in this country is so high that he is above the law."36 While Hastings fought his case through appeals and pretrial motions, Borders went to trial... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - History - 1998 - 1898 pages
...the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and are bound to obey it ; no officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity." In the case of subpoenas issued by this Committee in the course of it£ impeachment investigation,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - History - 1998 - 1892 pages
...the citizen," wrote Justice Louis Brandeis." The Supreme Court has said : Ko man in this country la so high that he is above the law. No officer of the taw may set that law at defiance with Impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - History - 1999 - 756 pages
...Let*** a civil suit against appointed military officers acting under a presidential directive, stated: [N]o officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of government, from the highest to the lowest ... are bound to obey it. It Is the only supreme power in... | |
| John E. Semonche - History - 2000 - 532 pages
...prohibited." Insisting that the Court's priestly authority is to enforce the commands of the sacred writ, he 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,... | |
| Julia Beckett, Heidi O. Koenig - Business & Economics - 2005 - 284 pages
...the validity of his or her actions. "No man in this country," the Supreme Court has admonished us, "is so high that he is above the law. No officer of...law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All of the officers of government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound... | |
| Gregory C. Sisk - Law - 2006 - 694 pages
...States, every person, even an officer near to the seat of power, remains subject to the rule of law: No man in this country is so high that he is above...law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All of the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are... | |
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