I have always thought, from my earliest youth till now, that the greatest scourge an angry Heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent Judiciary. John Marshall: An Address - Page 32by Wayne MacVeagh - 1901 - 36 pagesFull view - About this book
| Pennsylvania - 1836 - 440 pages
...convention, be it what it may, will never compensate for the evil of changing the judicial tenure of office. I have always thought from my earliest youth till...angry heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a (inning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary.'' These sentiments are wprthy-of... | |
| Pennsylvania - 1835 - 472 pages
...convention, be it what it may, will never compensate for the evil of changing the judicial tenure of office. I have always thought from my earliest youth till...an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary." These sentiments are worthy of the profoundest consideration. They were the last legacy of his political... | |
| Horace Binney - History - 1835 - 86 pages
...convention, be it what it may, will never compensate for the evil of changing the judicial tenure of office." "I have always thought from my earliest youth till...an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary." These sentiments are worthy of the profoundest consideration. They were the last legacy of his political... | |
| Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1835 - 552 pages
...be it what it may, will never compensate for the evil of changing the judicial tenure of office.' ' I have always thought from my earliest youth till...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,... | |
| Virginia - 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,...an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary. Will you draw down this curse upon Virginia?"" Gen. Brodnax, in the course of his remarks, paid a noble... | |
| Massachusetts constitutional convention, 1853 - 1853 - 814 pages
...Convention, be it what it may, will never compensate for the evil of changing the judicial tenure of office." "I have always thought from my earliest youth till...an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary." Slr. President : I had other considerations to urge, but the Convention does not seem to be in a mood... | |
| Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Harvey Fowler - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 806 pages
...be it what it may, will never compensate for the evil of changing the judicial tenure of office." " I have always thought from my earliest youth till...an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary." Mr. President : I had other considerations to urge, but the Convention does not seem to be in a mood... | |
| George Van Santvoord - Electronic books - 1854 - 550 pages
...perfectly and completely independent, with nothing to control him but God and his conscience V ##*##### " I have always thought, from my earliest youth till...an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent Judiciary." An incident occurred in one of the discussions in the Convention, that is worthy of being noticed.... | |
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