William Cranch Quotes

William Cranch was a United States Circuit Judge and Chief United States Circuit Judge of the United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia. A staunch Federalist and nephew of President John Adams, Cranch moved his legal practice from Massachusetts to the new national capital, where he became one of three city land commissioners for Washington, D.C., and during his judicial service also was the 2nd Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States and a Professor of law at Columbian College .



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✵ 17. July 1769 – 1. September 1855
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William Cranch Quotes

“In a government which is emphatically stiled a government of laws, the least possible range ought to be left for the discretion of the judge.”

Source: Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States (1804) https://books.google.com/books?id=Wxm9qWvls8YC&pg=PR3

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