 | 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... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American essays - 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,... | |
 | Hugh Blair Grigsby - Virginia - 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
...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,...influence or control him but God and his conscience?' ' We have heard about sinecures and judicial pensioners. Sir, the weight of such terms is well known... | |
 | Literature - 1876 - 1072 pages
...sophisms of Jefferson, none of them would have verified, in shame and humiliation, Marshall's saying that " the greatest scourge an angry heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and sinning people was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary." JOHN MACUUNELL. EASTERN AFFAIRS... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1922 - 272 pages
...Justice Marshall as a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1830 used these words : "I have always thought, from my earliest youth till...the greatest scourge an angry Heaven ever inflicted on an ungrateful and a sinning people, was an ignorant, a currupt, or a dependent Judiciary." When... | |
 | Law - 1908 - 1082 pages
...nothing to control him but God and his own conscience ? I have always thought, from my earliest youth to now. that the greatest scourge an angry Heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and sinning people was an ignorant or corrupt or dependent judiciary." The scope of influence and power... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Electronic books - 1882 - 760 pages
...last degree impotant, that he should be rendered perfectly and completely independent, with nothing to control him but God and his conscience?" * * * **-**...now, that the greatest scourge an angry Heaven ever innicted npon an ungrateful and sinning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent Judiciary."... | |
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The judicial department comes home, in its effects, to every man's fireside ; 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... 
