Dickinson Accredited Evening High School - Owl Yearbook (Jersey City, NJ)

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-1715 New jersey State Omtoriml Contest fC0ntinuedj years the Supreme Court is emerging from political oblivion, some of the country's leading men are blaming practically everything possible on the Court, apparently because they honestly feel the Court is yielding to partisan politics. Of course we know this is not true because there have been innumerable occa- sions in the Court's history where it has reached unbelievable heights insofar as impartiality is concerned. For example in the famous Dred Scott Case! The trial of the southern negro? The trial that tore the north from the south! The case that precipitated the Civil War. There were two judges, one a northern Democrat, the other a northern Whig, who voted in favor of the South. President Lincoln's legal tender case was declared unconstitutional by one of the very judges whom he had appointed. President jefferson, jackson and Madison were sadly disillusioned by their appointees to the bench. Even the famous Teddy Roosevelt in his case against the Northern Securities Company was opposed by his own appointees to the bench. And then the late President Woodrow Wilson once discharged a high postal official without the consent of Congress. The case was brought before the Supreme Court as being an unconstitutional act. President Wilson won, a former Republican President delivering the majority opinion . There were two judges whom Wilson had appointed, Brandeis and McReynolds who dissented from the decision. Mc- Reynolds incidentally was Wilson's former Attorney-General. These examples conclusively show that the Supreme Court is really the personification of impartiality. One of the most annoying phrases eminating from the verbal attacks on the Supreme Court is the expression Nine Old Men . Which by the way, originated in a tabloid newspaper. Of course we realize that those grey hairs which are the target of die-hard opponents of the Court are purely symbolic of years of legal training and the acquiring of knewledge, two things which eminently befit a man to sit upon the nation's highest bench. Oh, how fortu- nate we are in having these Nine Old Men who to us personify the people's Rock of Gibraltar against the onslaught of the ever-changing political majorities. Nine men who base their decisions not on the passing whims of some political leader or his zealous followers, but upon the fundamental charter of the land, the Constitution. Nine men, ladies and gentlemen, admittedly not infallible, but absolutely impartial! Seventy

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:HS NEW JERSEY STATE ORATORICAL CONTEST The following is the speech made by james Daly at the New jersey State Oratorical Contest which won the Alexander F. Ormsby Trophy for Dickinson Accredited Evening High School. SUPREME COURT-TRULY IMPARTIAL At the present time, when the Supreme Court is being verbally barraged from practically all angles, there is one very important factor that is being entirely overlooked, that is, that the Supreme Court is the most impartial body of men in the country. A brief resume of its activities will clearly show this. The Constitution of the United States provides in its third article that the judicial power of these United States shall be vested in one supreme and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish Also that the justices of the Supreme Court shall hold office for life subject to good behavior. This article also provides that all legal controversies arising within or concerning the United States shall be definitely decided by this court. The appointment of the first group of justices fell, as did many other things, upon the able shoulders of George Washington. Incidentally, there is a very interesting story connected with Washington and the Supreme Court. During his term, the country was, of course, in its embryonic stage, and the international scope. One day he, upon the suggestion of Thomas jefferson, first Secretary of State, and over the objection of Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury, compiled a series of twenty-nine questions which he submitted to the Supreme Court for its advice. Despite the fact that these judges owed their appointments to Washington and he earnestly sought their advice, they very graciously, but most insistently, refused to advise him. Their reason was of course that in so doing they would not be deciding actual cases brought before the court but would be merely advising the president, hence leaving the realm of the judiciary to enter the executive. Can you appreciate just how important this one decision was in. laying the fundamental planks of Americas judicial system, deciding only cases actually brought before the court by dissatisfied individuals. The wisdom displayed by these judges at the very inception of the courtg that is, forgetting personal friendships and obligations, has been typical of it even now into the present era, although at various intervals throughout its history, competent and not so competent politicians have flung inane and nefarious accusations at it in an attempt to mislead the public for their own small and petty ideas. Today, for instance, when for the first time in many Sixty-nine

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