 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1804 - 514 σελίδες
...clear than that their afts are only politically examinable. But where a fpecifk duty is af. figned by law, and individual rights depend upon the performance of that duty, it feems equally clear that the individual who confiders himfelf injured, has a right to refort to the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 486 σελίδες
...discretion, nothing can be more perfectly clear than that their acts are onlj politically examinable. But where a specific duty is assigned by law, and individual rights depend upon the periormance of that duty, it seems equally clear that the individual who considers himself injured,... | |
 | Nicholas Baylies - 1814 - 478 σελίδες
...constitutional, or legal discretion, their acts are only politically examinable. 1 Crancli, 166, 170, 171. But where a specific duty is assigned by law, and...individual rights depend upon the performance of that duty, an injured individual has a right to resort to the laws of his country for a remedy. Ibid. 166. 73... | |
 | Nathan Dane - 1824 - 764 σελίδες
...possesses a constitutional, or legal discretion, their acts are only politically examinable : 9. That where a specific duty is assigned by law, and individual rights depend upon the performance of that duty, an injured- individual has a right to resort to the laws of his country for a remedy: 10. That it is... | |
 | Nathan Dane - 1824 - 768 σελίδες
...assigned by law, and individual rights depend upon the performance of that duty, an injured individual has a right to resort to the laws of his country for a remedy: 10. That it is the essential criterion of appellate jurisdiction, that it revises and corrects the... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1834 - 740 σελίδες
...discretion, nothing can be more perfectly clear than that their acts are only politically examinable. But where a specific duty is assigned by law, and...to resort to the laws of his country for a remedy." Although I am constrained to believe that the President has been mistaken in asserting that the duty... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - 1832 - 428 σελίδες
...of that duty, if the President should refuse to perform it, any individual injured by the refusal, has a right to resort to the laws of his country for a remedy. See 1 Cranch, 155. The heads of departments for the same reason, where they act merely as the organs... | |
 | Horace Binney - 1834 - 172 σελίδες
...discretion, nothing can be more perfectly clear than that their acts are only politically examlnable. But where a specific duty is assigned by law, and...to resort to the laws of his country for a remedy." Although I am constrained to believe that the President has been mistaken in asserting that the duty... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1834 - 852 σελίδες
...more perfectly clear than that their acts aro only politically examinable. But where a specificduty is assigned by law, and individual rights depend upon...performance of that duty, it seems equally clear that Ihe individual wlio considers himself injured, has a right to resort to the laws of his country for... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1836 - 680 σελίδες
...politically examinahle. But where a specific duty is assigned by law, arid individual rights depend on the performance of that duty, it seems equally clear...to resort to the laws of his country for a remedy. Ibid. 24. Where the head of a department acts in a case in which executive discretion is to be exercised,... | |
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But where a specific duty is assigned by law, and individual rights depend upon the performance of that duty, it seems equally clear that the individual who considers himself injured, has a right to resort to the laws of his country for a remedy. 
