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Downes Vs. Bidwell

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 27, 1901

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  11. U.S. 244 (1901) U.S. Supreme Court Downes v. Bidwell
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  12. U.S. 244 (1901) Downes v. Bidwell
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  13. a departure from this elementary principle by a criticism of the opinion of Mr. Chief Justice Taney in Scott v. Sandford
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  14. to include all actions against customs officers acting under color of their office. While, as we have held in De Lima v. Bidwell
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  15. U. S. 104 , 116 U. S. 107 . See also Ins. Co. v. Ritchie
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  16. Philadelphia v. The
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  17. Hornthall v. The
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  18. of a law of the United States, the writ of error was properly sued out from this Court. 2. In the case of De Lima v. Bidwell
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  19. in short, that these words were used in a proprietary, and not in a political, sense. But, as we observed in De Lima v. Bidwell
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  20. who make them, much less as dictating the construction to be put upon the Constitution by the courts. United States v. Union
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  21. It is true that, for reasons which have become historical, this act was declared to be unconstitutional in Scott v. Sandford
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  22. Cohen v. Virginia
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  23. Wheat. 264, 19 U. S. 399 . The earliest case is that of Hepburn v. Ellzey
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  24. This case was followed in Barney v. Baltimore
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  25. Wall. 280, and quite recently in Hooe v. Jamieson
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  26. U. S. 395 . The same rule was applied to citizens of territories in New Orleans v. Winter
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  27. In Scott v. Jones
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  28. How. 343, and in Miners' Bank v. Iowa
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  29. drawn in question, an act of a territorial legislature was not within the contemplation of Congress. Loughborough v. Blake
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  30. they apply to the territories, they were not called for by the exigencies of the case. In line with Loughborough v. Blake
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  31. is the case of Callan v. Wilson
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  32. relating to trial by jury were held to be in force in the District of Columbia. Upon the other hand, in De Geofroy v. Riggs
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  33. extended the Constitution and laws of the United States to this District. The case of American Ins. Co. v. Canter
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  34. Page 182 U. S. 267 case Mr. Chief Justice Marshall made no reference whatever to the prior case of Loughborough v. Blake
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  35. territories, or that the judicial clause is exceptional in that particular. This case was followed in Benner v. Porter
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  36. To the same effect are Clinton v. Englebrecht
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  37. U. S. 90 , 95 U. S. 98 , and McAllister v. United
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  38. the foundation upon which the territorial governments rest, was also asserted by Chief Justice Marshall in McCulloch v. Maryland
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  39. Wheat. 316, 17 U. S. 422 , and in United States v. Gratiot
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  40. Pet. 526. So, too, in Mormon Church v. United
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  41. See also, to the same Page 182 U. S. 269 effect, National Bank v. County
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  42. U. S. 15 . In Webster v. Reid
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  43. so far as they were applicable, and the case was put upon this ground. 5 Stat. 235, 239, sec. 12. In Reynolds v. United
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  44. In Springville v. Thomas
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  45. thus cease to exist as such and become of no greater authority than an ordinary act of Congress. In American Pub. Co. v. Fisher
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  46. that the organic act of Utah extended the Constitution over that territory. These rulings were repeated in Thompson v. Utah
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  47. neither Congress nor the territorial legislature can enact laws inconsistent therewith. The case of Dred Scott v. Sandford
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  48. unfairly or injuriously upon some states and not equally upon others. The opinion of MR. JUSTICE WHITE in Knowlton v. Moore
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  49. in question in this case, a power it has not seen fit to exercise. The words of Chief Justice Marshall in Gibbons v. Ogden
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  50. So too, in Johnson v. McIntosh
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