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Levi Woodbury

(1789–1851) Politician

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Levi Woodbury was a politician.

Quick Facts About Levi Woodbury

Born: December 22, 1789
Died: September 4, 1851
Profession: Politician

About Levi Woodbury

[Wikidata] US Supreme Court justice from 1845 to 1851... | [Wikipedia] Levi Woodbury was an American attorney, jurist, and Democratic politician from New Hampshire. During a four-decade career in public office, Woodbury served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, a United States senator, the ninth governor of New Hampshire, and cabinet mem

Quotes by Levi Woodbury

Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human…

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It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their…

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The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed…

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Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are…

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Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates…

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