| Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 942 pages
...he has a right, and that right has been violated, do the laws of his country afford him a remedy ? The very essence of civil Liberty certainly consists...duties of government is to afford that protection. In Great Britain the king himself is sued in the respectful form of a petition, and he never fails... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 972 pages
...the case of Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137, Chief Justice .\IAKSIIALL uses the following language: "The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists...duties of government is to afford that protection." And further on in the same case, page 61, after stating that the courts cannot control executive discretion,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1408 pages
...Chief Justice Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 163, 2 L. Ed. 60, cannot be quoted too often: "The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists...duties of government is to afford that protection. * • » The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1246 pages
...166 NY 1, 11, 59 NE 716, 82 Am. St. Rep. 605, 52 LRA 814, and authorities there cited. Having in mind that "the very essence of civil liberty certainly...protection of the laws whenever he receives an injury," and that "one of the first duties of government is to afford that protection'' (Chief Justice Marshall... | |
| New Mexico. Supreme Court, John Abbott, Paul A. F. Walter - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 746 pages
...deprivation are immaterial. He is entitled to the protection of the law. The very essence of civil liberty consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the law. 1 Cranch, 163. Even in Great Britain the king himself is sued in respectful form of a petition,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 672 pages
...very essence of civil liberty," it was said in Mai-bury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137, "is the right qf every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury." The Constitution of Kentucky provides that the Governor "shall be elected for the term of four years... | |
| Wayne MacVeagh - 1901 - 48 pages
...laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right. The very essence of civil liberty consists in the right of every individual to claim...duties of government is to afford that protection. By the Constitution of the United States the President is invested with certain important political... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1903 - 828 pages
...he has a right, and that right has been violated, do the laws of his country afford him a remedy ? The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists...duties of government is to afford that protection. In Great Britain the king himself is sued in the respectful form of a petition, and he never fails... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1903 - 832 pages
...he has a right, and that right has been violated, do the laws of his country afford him a remedy ? The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists...duties of government is to afford that protection. In Great Britain the king himself is sued in the respectful form of a petition, and he never fails... | |
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