Alexander J. Dallas,
United States Reports
(1793)
“ We beg leave to premise, that it is as much our inclination, as it is our duty, to receive with all possible respect every act of the Legislature, and that we never can find ourselves in a more painful situation than to be obliged to object to the execution of any, more especially to the execution of one founded on the purest principles of humanity and justice, which the act in question undoubtedly is. ”
Alexander J. Dallas,
United States Reports
(1793)
“ Before you, therefore, we think it our duty to lay the sentiments, which, on a late painful occasion, governed us with regard to an act passed by the legislature of the union. “The people of the United States have vested in Congress all legislative powers “granted in the constitution.” “They have vested in one Supreme court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress shall establish, “the judicial power of the United States.” “It is worthy of remark, that in Congress the whole legislative power of the United States is not vested. ”
Alexander J. Dallas,
United States Reports
(1793)
“ The high respect we entertain for the Legislature, our feelings as men for persons, whose situation requires the earliest, as well as the most effectual relief, and our sincere desire to promote, whether officially or otherwise, the just and benevolent views of Congress, so conspicuous on the present at well as on many other occasions, have induced us to reflect, whether we could be justified in acting, under this act, personally in the character of commissioners during the session of a court ”
