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• The power of citizenship as a shield against oppression was widely known from the example of Paul 's Roman citizenship, which sent the centurion scurrying to his higher-ups with the message: "Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman".

  Robert H. Jackson

  Men, Example, Shields

  "Edwards v. California, 314 U.S. 160, 182". Judicial opinion, 1941.

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• The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not make right even in taxation. To hold that what the use of official authority may get the state may keep, and that if it cannot get hold of a nonresident stockholder it may hold the company as hostage for him, is strange constitutional doctrine to me.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Doe, Doctrine, Use

  "International Harvester Co. v. Wisconsin Dept. of Taxation, 322 U.S. 435, 450". Judicial opinion, 1944.

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• The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Scylla, Problem, Charybdis

  "Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. v. Northwestern Public Service Co., 341 U.S. 246, 250". Judicial opinion, 1951.

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• In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Party, Dancing, Justice

  "Orloff v. Willoughby, 345 U.S. 83, 87". Judicial opinion, 1953.

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• The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Irrelevance, Race, Color

  "Edwards v. California, 314 U.S. 160, 184". Judicial opinion, 1941.

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• Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or of any law reform, is reckoned in decades usually; in years, at least. And, after all, as the Court itself asserted in overruling the minimum-wage cases, it may not be the Constitution that was at fault.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Gestation Period, Years, Law

  "The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy: A Study in Crisis in American Power Politics". Book by Robert H. Jackson, p. 297, 1941.

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• It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Government, Process, Due Process

  "Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 131, 131". Judicial opinion, 1943.

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• Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Intelligent, Support, Liberty

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• It is only the words of the bill that have presidential approval, where that approval is given. It is not to be supposed that in signing a bill the President endorses the whole Congressional Record.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Presidential, Records, Bills

  "Schwegmann Bros. v. Calvert Distillers Corp., 341 U.S. 384, 396". Judicial opinion, 1951.

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• But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Doe, Doctrine, Validity

  "Wells v. Simonds Abrasive Co., 345 U.S. 514, 525". Judicial opinion, 1953.

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• Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Connections, Links, States

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• The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Office, Corporations, Lawyer

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