 | American Orators - 1857 - 656 pages
...justified by the legitimate authority of the executive. They applied to the Supreme Court for a rule upon the Secretary of State, to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, commanding him to deliver up the commissions. Let me ask, sir, what could the judges do Î The rule... | |
 | History - 1857 - 650 pages
...justified by the legitimate authority of the executive. They applied to the Supreme Court for a rule upon the Secretary of State, to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, commanding him to deliver up the commissions. Let me ask, sir, what conld the judges do? The rule to... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 690 pages
...justified by the legitimate authority of the executive. They applied to the Supremo Court for a rule upon the Secretary of State, to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, commanding him to deliver up the commissions. Let me ask, sir, what could tho judges do? The rule to... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 792 pages
...remedy. The president of the United States, by signing the commission, appointed Mr. Marbury a justice of the peace for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia; and the seal of the United States affixed thereto by the secretary of state, is conclusive testimony... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 708 pages
...court was delivered by the CHIEF JUSTICE. At the last term on the affidavits then read and filed with the clerk, a rule was granted in this case, requiring...why a mandamus * should not issue, directing him to [ * 154 ] deliver to William Marbury his commission as a justice of the peace for the county of Washington,... | |
 | James Lambert High - Extraordinary remedies - 1874 - 726 pages
...mandamus, are very clearly defined in this case, which was an application to the court for a rule against the secretary of state, to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, commanding him to deliver to the relators their commissions, as justices of the peace for the District... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 282 pages
...a motion was made in the Supreme Court of the United States, that rule be made upon James Madison, Secretary of State, to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, commanding him to deliver, or cause to be delivered to divers persons, commissions as Justices of the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 758 pages
...(.'triff Ju*lict. Opinion, iff Vu: Court. At the last term on the affidavits then read and filed with the clerk, a rule was granted in this case, requiring the secretary of state to show 154*] cause why a mandamus *should not issue, directing him to deliver to William MarImry his commission... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 844 pages
...secretary of state of the United States, directing him to deliver to Marbury his commission as justice of the peace for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, and decided that it was neither a case within the appellate or original jurisdiction of the supreme... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1408 pages
...for refusing obedience to a summons. SEC. . And be it furthtr enacted, That hereafter the justices of the peace for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, shall be appointed for three years ; and upon indictment and conviction of any justice of the peace,... | |
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At the last term on the affidavits then read and filed * 1 *>4. jnih the clerk, a rule was granted in this case, requiring the secretary of state to show cause why a mandamus *should not issue, directing him to deliver to William Marbury his commission... 
