 | North Carolina Bar Association - Bar associations - 1920 - 334 pages
...presentment or indictment by a Grand Jury. The Court sums the whole matter up in the following language: "The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equal in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Colonies - 1901 - 196 pages
...the force of circumstances. It may be amended according to its own permission; but while it stands it is 'a law for rulers and people, equally in war and...of men, at all times and under all circumstances.' Its principles cannot, therefore, be set aside in order to meet the supposed necessities of great crises.... | |
 | Mabel Hill - Constitutional history - 1901 - 492 pages
...force of circumstances. It may be amended according to its own permission ; but while it stands it is "a law for rulers and people, equally in war and...of men, at all times and under all circumstances." Its principles cannot, therefore, be set aside in order to meet the supposed necessities of great crises.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 648 pages
...force of circumstances. It may be amended according to its own permission ; but while it stands it is ' a law for rulers and people, equally in war and...of men, at all times and under all circumstances.' Its principles cannot, therefore, be set aside in order to meet the supposed necessities of great crises.... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Constitutional history - 1901 - 498 pages
...It may be amended according to its own permission ; but while it stands it is "a law for rulers aud people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with...of men, at all times and under all circumstances." Its principles cannot, therefore, be set aside in order to meet the supposed necessities of great crises.... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 1234 pages
...history of the world had taught them that what was done in the past might be attempted in the future. The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers...in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of his protection all classes of men at all times and under all circumstances." Undoubtedly our fathers... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 758 pages
...uses this strong and patriotic language : ''The constitution is a law for rulers and people in war and peace, and covers with the shield of its protection,...of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the art of man, than that any... | |
 | George Henry Shibley - Elections, Nonpartisan - 1904 - 124 pages
...principles of a republic existed. The supreme court of the United States declared: The Constitution is a law for rulers and people equally in war and...classes of men at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown - United States - 1904 - 490 pages
...of the government in times of war. The leading thoughts of Mr. Justice Davis's decision are: " The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people in war and in peace and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men at all times and... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1164 pages
...constantly before us the words of the Supreme Court of the T'nlted States. "The Constitution * * * is a law for rulers and people, equally In war and in peace, and covers witli the shield of Its protection ail classes of men, at all times, and under ail circumstances. No... | |
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The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. 
