>> Weren't you one of those extoling the wisdom of the founding "fathers"? Afterall, they created the 3 arms of government: Executive, Congressional AND Judicial. Evidently, their ideas only deserve accolades when they correspond with your personal beliefs.....otherwise they are pathetic. <<
"In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily dominates,"
--James Madison, Federalist #51
"[T]he judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power,"
--Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #78.
"The great object of my fear is the Federal Judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting with noiseless foot and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step and holding what it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them."
--Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1821.
"...the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
--Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address - Monday, March 4, 1861 |
