The Essentials of American Constitutional Law

by Francis Newton Thorpe

[277] Political Science and Constitutional Law, J. W. Burgess, ii., 365; “I do not hesitate to call the governmental system of the United States the aristocracy of the robe; and I do not hesitate to pronounce this the truest aristocracy for the purposes of government which the world has yet produced.” Id.

[278] United States v. Lee, 106 U. S., 196 (1882).

[279] Case of Supervisors of Elections, 114 Mass., 247 (1873); the quotation (in the decision) is from the Constitution of Massachusetts, 1780, Part I, xxx. “The Government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men.” Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 163.

[280] State ex rel. v. Simons, 32 Minn., 540 (1884). Ex parte Griffiths, 118 Indiana, 83 (1889).

[281] Idem.

[282] Harwood v. Wentforth, 162 U. S., 547 (1896).

[283] Osborn v. Bank of the United States, 9 Wheaton, 738 (1824).

[284] Osborn v. Bank of the United States, 9 Wheaton, 738 (1824).

[285] Many cases; see Southern Pacific Railroad Co. v. California, 118 U. S., 109 (1866); Beck v. Perkins, 139 U. S., 628 (1891).

[286] Börs v. Preston, 111 U. S., 252. (1884).