| Jacob Gould Schurman - 1908 - 350 strani
...reckon him one of the worst enemies of the community who will talk lightly of the dignity of the bench. We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution...liberty and of our property under the Constitution. I do not want to see any direct assault upon the courts, nor do I want to see any indirect assault... | |
| Charles Evans Hughes - 1908 - 348 strani
...reckon him one of the worst enemies of the community who will talk lightly of the dignity of the bench. We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution...liberty and of our property under the Constitution. I do not want to see any direct assault upon the courts, nor do I want to see any indirect assault... | |
| Charles Evans Hughes - 1916 - 466 strani
...reckon him one of the worst enemies of the community who will talk lightly of the dignity of the bench. We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution...liberty and of our property under the Constitution. I do not want to see any direct assault upon the courts, nor do I want to see any indirect assault... | |
| Public Affairs Committee - 1936 - 392 strani
...constitutional system. Chief Justice Hughes is doubtless bored by the constant repetition of his epigram "We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is." It is a practical man's appraisal of the realities of the constitutional system under which we live.... | |
| Robert Ferdinand Wagner - 1937 - 14 strani
...of the Supreme Court of telling us what the Constitution means. As Chief Justice Hughes once said, "We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is." The Supreme Court exercises the all-important power of judicial review — the power to declare void... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1937 - 1038 strani
...him one of the worst enemies of the community which will talk lightly of the dignity of the bench. We are under a constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say It Comma — and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution.... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1937 - 1042 strani
...successor of Justice Brewer, Mr. Hughes had spoken the capable words quoted at the outset of this volume, "We are under a constitution, but the Constitution Is what the judges sny it is." And when you say that this incisive statement describes with accuracy not only an achieved... | |
| Aaron Kirschenbaum - 1991 - 316 strani
...Pentateuch, Deuteronomy 17:11; Ran, iMi,198-199. Cf. the statements made by (1) Justice Charles Evans Hughes, "We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is..." (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 14th ed., 864), and (2) Justice Robert Jackson, "We are not final... | |
| David Andrew Schultz - 1992 - 244 strani
...of property rights in American society. The Constitutional Rise, Fall, and Rise of Property Rights We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution...liberty and of our property under the Constitution. — Charles Evans Hughes The judiciary has played an ongoing and important role in the articulation... | |
| Nathan Aaseng - 1992 - 160 strani
...77 J. ev ew remarks made by Charles Evans Hughes have received as much attention as his comment that "we are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is." Coming from a Supreme Court chief justice, the statement sounds rather arrogant and power-hungry. But... | |
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