...requiring notice as your opinion is strengthened by that of many others. You seem in pages 84 and 148, to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of...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...

...requiring notice as your opinion is strengthened by that of many others. You seem in pages 84 and 148, to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of...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...

...(Sept. 28, 1820), quoted in J. Bartlett, Familiar Quotations (15th ed. 1980), 389. Jefferson also wrote: "To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." Quoted in A. Cox, The Court and the Constitution...

...life apart from the people. Jefferson wrote to William Jarvis in 1820: 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. Justice Joseph Story told Chief...

...Thomas Jefferson, in 1820 he put his rejection of the doctrine of judicial supremacy very clearly: [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....

...judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please."83 It was his conviction that "to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions was a very dangerous doctrine indeed," for there was and could be "no safe depository of the powers...

...page 84 and 148, to Consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions-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...

...copy of his book. The Republican, in which Jarvis discussed the role of the judiciary at some length. "You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions," wrote Jefferson. "[This is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the...

...requiring notice as your opinion is strengthened by that of many others. You seem, in pages 84 and 148, to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of...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...

...and I quote, [TJo consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions jis] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would.... . . The constitution has erected no such single tribunal."3 I should add that after the Court took the time to interpret the Constitution in Marbury,...