...of Jefferson's celebrated denial that the judiciary is the final expounder of the Constitution — 'a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy ' — and the great radical's insistence that each department of government must decide its constitutional...

...wrote: "The grreat object of my fear is the federal judiciary." S2 "It is a very dangerous doctrine to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions. It is one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. ' ' 8S Jefferson n°c"™°*;^J..JfJ:c;._fltnr'qi'"...

...judicial process which amounted almost to reverence," drew from Thomas Jefferson the caustic "civility," "You seem ... to consider the judges as the ultimate...would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." Quoted in Birdsall, Berkshire County, pp. 248, 250, from a letter from Jefferson to Jarvis dated September...

...one of them Thomas Jefferson, the other one Abraham Lincoln. Thomas Jefferson warned us, and I quote: "You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters...questions — a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one that would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." President Abraham Lincoln said the same thing...

...Lincoln called this "an astonisher in legal history;" "a new wonder of the world." For Lincoln, this was "a very dangerous doctrine indeed and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy:" He _denied that he "resisted" the Supreme Court's Drttd Scott decision. The Court had decided that...

...follows: (T)o consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions— (is) a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for...

...follows: (T)o consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions— (is) a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotiso of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with...

...Lincoln called this "an astonisher in legal history;" "a new wonder of the world." For Lincoln, this was "a very dangerous doctrine Indeed and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." He de_nied that he "resisted" the Supreme Court's Bred Scott decision. The Court had decided that Scott...

...history", "a new wonder of the world." He quoted Jefferson who had called such a view "a very dar.gerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy; 'Today, the whole Nation has been .tricked into accepting this "dangerous doctrine" with generally...

...the Judge who rendered them unknowing of his fault." Consider also Thomas Jefferson's observation, "To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions would be a very dangerous doctrine indeed and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy....