 ... comes home in its effects to every man's fire-side; — it passes on his property, his reputation, his life, his all. Is it not to the last degree important, that he should be rendered perfectly and completely independent, with nothing to control...  Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania - Page 3011836Full view - About this book
 | Horace Binney - 1835 - 74 pages
...important, that he should be rendered perfectly and completely independent, with nothing to control him but God and his conscience." "1 acknowledge that...angry heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary." These sentiments are worthy... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1835 - 552 pages
...control him but God and his conscience.' ' I acknowledge that in my judgment, the whole good which m.iy grow out of this convention, be it what it may, will...greatest scourge an angry heaven ever inflicted upon on ungrateful and a sinning people, wae an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary.' " APPENDIX.... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1855 - 584 pages
...of private right, the independence of judges is absolutely necessary. Said Chief Justice Marshall, " I have always thought, from my earliest youth till now, that the greatest scourge which an angry heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and sinning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 pages
...mother commonwealth. That great jurist (he was a a member of that constitutional convention), said : " I have always thought from my earliest youth till now, that the greatest scourge an angry heaven can inflict upon an ungrateful and sinning people was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary."*... | |
 | 1850 - 114 pages
...they may be removed at pleasure, will any lawyer of distinction come upon your bench ? No sir. •! have always thought, from my earliest youth till now,...angry heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary. Will you draw down this curse... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Harvey Fowler - 1853 - 806 pages
...perfectly and completely independent, •with nothing to control him but God and his conscience ? " " I acknowledge, that in my judgment, the whole good which...angry Heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary." Mr. President : I had other... | |
 | Massachusetts constitutional convention, 1853 - 1853 - 814 pages
...rendered perfectly and completely independent, with nothing to control him but God and his conscience?" "I acknowledge, that in my judgment, the whole good which...angry Heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary." Slr. President : I had other... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 554 pages
...and completely independent, with nothing to control him but God and his conscience ?" «*****«« " I have always thought, from my earliest youth till...angry Heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent Jndiciary." An incident occurred in one... | |
 | Hugh Blair Grigsby - 1854 - 142 pages
...with surpassing skill ; and when in conclusion, and under the full excitement of debate, he declared : "I have always thought from my earliest youth till now, that the greatest curse an angry heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt,... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1858 - 572 pages
...this but saying, that there is, and can be, and ought to be, no such thing as judicial independence?' 'I have always thought, from my earliest youth till...angry Heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary. Will you draw down this curse... | |
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