Manual of the Constitution of the United States of America
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But it was mani- fest, that the Administration, represented by the Attorney-General, did not favor it, and the court would not volunteer a review of the question. § 565. So it has stood for fifty years, and so it stands to-day, without an effort on the part of any branch of the government to change it. Thus the government, in the same spirit and for the same purpose that it has neglected and de- clined to exercise many of its important powers for the benefit of the people, has absolutely dis- c...laimed and abjured all power to w secure the 1 1 Gal. Rep., 488. THE JUDICIAL POWERS. 485 blessings of liberty," and practically abrogated and thrown away a large proportion of their power and duty to f * establish justice." As the laws now stand and are construed by them- selves, their own judges have no legal protec- tion for life, liberty, property, or reputation, in the performance of their official duties in their own circuits; their citizens are said to be shot down in their own dwellings, almost daily in some places, with impunity, and without any provision of judicial remedy; and even their executive officers, civil and military, soldiers, agents, servants, and citizens of all grades, are held liable to be politically disfranchised, per- secuted, and outlawed, by the agents of subor- dinate local governments, for fidelity and loyalty to the Union; and all this not only without trial and punishment, but without even a liability to the legal right of complaint and judicial exami- nation under the national authority.
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