Sentence examples for ride circuit from inspiring English sources
People also thought it was a good idea for the Justices to ride circuit, so that they'd know the citizenry better.
BACK when America's courts were created, Supreme Court justices actually had to get on their horses and "ride circuit", dispensing justice on the gallop.
In those early days of the court, the justices would "ride circuit" in addition to their appellate court functions.
Stuart v. Laird involving a civil judgment rendered by a circuit court constituted under the Midnight Judges Act and enforced by a circuit court constituted under the Judiciary Act of 1802 challenged the constitutionality both of abolishing the circuit judgeships and of requiring the Supreme Court justices to ride circuit.
Lincoln saw his first telegraph key only three years before he ran for president, in a hotel lobby while riding circuit in Pekin, Ill.
No doubt the verbal skills, honed while riding circuit as a Western lawyer, helped make him popular with judges and juries alike.
How did if differ in number of justices, types of cases heard, and duties of its members (e.g., "riding circuit")?
Since justices once "rode circuit" and actually sat as judges in lower courts, Congress would add a justice when it added a circuit – or reduce the court with the elimination of a circuit.
The Justices hated riding circuit and, in 1792, petitioned the President to relieve them of the duty, writing, "We cannot reconcile ourselves to the idea of existing in exile from our families".
John Jay (who served as president of the American Bible Society), Elias Boudinot (who wrote a book on the imminent Second Coming of Jesus), and Patrick Henry (who distributed religious tracts while riding circuit as a lawyer) clearly believed in Evangelical Christianity.
The film centres on a former rodeo rider (Eastwood) whose passion for an ambitious college student (Robertson) is complicated by his wish to return to the bull riding circuit and her desire to find work on the New York art scene.
