Charles Sumner; His Complete Works
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ISBN13: 9780217809719
Paperback|9780217809719
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REMODELLING OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. Remarks In The Senate, On The Bill To Reorganize The JudiCiary Of The United States, April 2, 1866. This bill, reported from the Judiciary Committee by Mr. Harris, of New York, was considered for several days in the Senate, and finally passed that body. It failed in the House of Representatives. Another bill, having a similar object, afterwards became a law.1 On the present bill Mr. Stunner remarked: ? WE all know that the Supreme Court is now some three years behind in its business, and the practical question is, How are we to bring relief ? There are two different ways. One is by limiting appeals, so that hereafter it shall have less business. Another, and to my mind the better way, would be to allow appeals substantially as now, but to limit the court to the exclusive hearing of those appeals. Of course that raises the question, whether the judges of the Supreme Court sitting here in Washington should have duties elsewhere. That is a question of practice, and also of theory. Since I have been in the Senate, it has been very often discussed, formally or informally, and there have been differences of opinion upon it. I believe the inclination has always been that judges are better inthe discharge of their duties from experience at Nisi Prius. That opinion, I take it, is derived from England; and yet I need not remind the Senator from New York that the two highest courts in England are held by judges who at the time do nothing at Nisi Prius, and do not go the circuit: I refer to the court of the Privy Council, and to the highest court of all, the court of the House of Lords. If you pass over to France, where certainly the judicature is admirably arranged on principles of science, where I believe justice is assure...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217809719 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217809715 |
| Weight | 0.71 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.49 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 214 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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