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The great importance of the question involved in this cause, and a strong conviction that the. opinion pronounced by the majority of this honorable court is erroneous, will, I trust, be considered as a sufficient justification for making this last effort to impart to your Honors, if possible, the depth and sincerity of that conviction.
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The great importance of the question involved in this cause, and a strong conviction that the. opinion pronounced by the majority of this honorable court is erroneous, will, I trust, be considered as a sufficient justification for making this last effort to impart to your Honors, if possible, the depth and sincerity of that conviction. The Constitution of a State, (in the eloquent language of the Supreme Court of the- United States,) is stable and permanent, not to be worked upon by the temper of the times, nor to rise or fall with the tide of events; notwithstanding the competition of…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The plaintiffs’ counsel has favored us with a printed petition for a re-hearing ; and as I had not the opportunity of detailing the reasons which induced me to concur in the opinion of the majority of the court when it was read, I am grateful for that which he has given me, of doing so, principally as he informs us, that the position taken by the dissenting Judge, was spontaneously pronounced to be unanswerable, by the whole bar, with the exception of the counsel for the appellants.
The petitioners state, that they were duly appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate,…
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