In the ruling, Chief Justice John Marshall described a corporation as an "artificial being" that is a "creature of the law."

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Why is justice the chief part and the most binding part of our morality?

为何公正是道德中最主要,最不可或缺的部分？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But still, he considers justice grounded on utility to be what he calls "the chief part and incomparably, the most sacred and binding part of all morality."

但是他依然把基于功利的公正称为,所有道德的主体,最无与伦比，最神圣，最有约束力的部分“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The chief justice of the United States swore Johnson into office a few hours after Lincoln's death.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Then the chief justice took up the question of the free territory in which Scott had lived.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Six of the nine justices, including the chief justice, were sitting right in front of the president.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

This week, Chief Justice John Roberts told law students that "anybody can criticize the Supreme Court."

VOA: special.2010.03.12

Chief Justice Roger Taney read the decision in the small courtroom in the Capitol building.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

This was George W. Bush being sworn-in by Chief Justice William Rehnquist in 2001.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

The chief justice of the United States wrote a letter to President Lincoln.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Some northern senators believed that Chief Justice Taney would decide for slavery.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

The Chief Justice of the United States then spoke the presidential oath.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

Chief Justice Taney began reading the decision at eleven o'clock.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

The chief justice of the United States serves as judge.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

The chief justice began to call on the senators.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Chief Justice John Roberts was one of four dissenters.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

The chief justice asked him to repeat his vote.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

The chief justice announced the result.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Generally,five of the nine justices make up a conservative majority on the high court, including Chief Justice John Roberts.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Asked whether the United States has tried to exert pressure on Pakistan's government to reinstate former chief justice Chaudhry,Wood said.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

Protesters want the president to reinstate the country's former supreme court chief justice, which they say is necessary to restore the judiciary's independence.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

Wood did not say whether Clinton specially urged the reinstatement of Chief Justice Chaudhry.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

But Chief Justice John Roberts of the U.S.Supreme Court rejected that argument.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

In 2007, the General suspended Pakistan's Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

Chief Justice Wayne Martin ruled staff would not be criminally responsible if they adhered to the quadraplegic's wishes and did not treat him or give him food and liquids.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

In Quetta,Supreme Court Bar Association President Ali Ahmad Kurd said he felt confident about the chances of reinstating the deposed chief justice of the supreme court, who has become a unifying symbol for opponents of the ruling Pakistan People's Party and President Asif Zardari.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

But in a press appearance here, she said the resolution of the standoff - with the reinstatement of the country's deposed Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry - was a resolution by the Pakistanis themselves and a hopeful first step toward broader dialogue.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

Rwandans are very suspicious of European ideas of justice, especially after the arrest of Rose Kabuye, chief of protocol for President Paul Kagame, in Germany last year.

VOA: standard.2009.04.10