THE RESPONSE OF THE JUDGES OF THE COURT OF APPEALS, TO THE PREAMBLE, RESOLUTIONS AND ADDRESS, PROPOSED BY A JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, FOR THE PURPOSE OF REMOVING THEM FROM OFFICE.

[Frankfort: 1824]. 38, [2 blanks] pp. Caption title [as issued]. Disbound, foxed, Good+.

The Response is signed at the end in type by John Boyle, William Owsley, and B. Mills. They were colleagues on Kentucky's Court of Appeals. In 1823 Chief Justice Boyle wrote the decision voiding Kentucky's debt relief law, an action which prompted the legislature to abolish his Court and create a new one. Owsley and Benjamin Mills had also sinned by invalidating debt-relief laws sponsored by the Relief Party.
The 'Response' argues that the Legislature's abolition of their office was unconstitutional, that the Court's decisions nullifying the debt relief laws were a proper exercise of judicial power, that those laws impaired the obligation of contract and were unconstitutional. "We cannot agree to shut our eyes upon the constitution, which we are sworn to support as most binding of all."
FIRST EDITION. Cohen 1445 and 11137. Sabin 37581. Not in Coleman, Harv. Law Cat., Marke, Eberstadt, Decker. Item #24625

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