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To: Star Traveler

That might have been Jackson or Roosevelt. Definitely a Dem.


20 posted on 06/26/2014 7:23:53 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: Mercat; Star Traveler

In a popular quotation that is probably apocryphal, President Andrew Jackson reportedly responded: “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!” This derives from Jackson’s consideration on the case in a letter to John Coffee, “...the decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born, and they find that they cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate,” (that is, the Court’s opinion because it had no power to enforce its edict).[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia


33 posted on 06/26/2014 7:29:53 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Mercat

Lincoln definitely ignored a US Supreme Court decision against him, in which they said his actions were UNCONSTITUTIONAL. And he was a Republican, I believe ... :-) ...


39 posted on 06/26/2014 7:31:55 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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