 | Sean Shealy - 2004 - 176 Seiten
...Washington Post December l, 2002 ( c ) 2002, The Washington Post. Reprinted with permission * secret "To 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.**"... | |
 | Edward Ashbee - 2004 - 332 Seiten
...hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please'. He also declared: 'To 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.... | |
 | Evan Haynes - 2005 - 328 Seiten
...against state judges who held acts of the legislatures void. In a letter of September 28, 1820, he wrote: "You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters...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... | |
 | Mark Sutherland, Dave Meyer, William J. Federer - 2005 - 246 Seiten
...over-reaching judicial system, and repeatedly warned of its dangers. Thomas Jefferson wrote, "You seem...to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all...place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." The founders did not consider judges to be the final say. In fact, Alexander Hamilton explained that, "The... | |
 | Larry Kramer - 2004 - 380 Seiten
...Jefferson said he felt "an urgency to note what I deem an error in it": "You seem, in pages 84 and 148, to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of...one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy."6 Jefferson then went on to relate, for the umpteenth time, his well-known views on the... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 2005 - 705 Seiten
...the courts are "the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions," Jefferson objected. It was "a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy," wrote the "Sage of Monticello." "The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 2005 - 701 Seiten
...words were concerned, his virulent resentment. For instance, seventeen years later Jefferson wrote that "to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions , . would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." s But for the time being, Jefferson was quiescent.... | |
 | Paul Sharp - 2006 - 417 Seiten
...Court was the ultimate authority to interpret the Constitution. In 1820 he wrote to William Jarvis: "You seem. ..to consider the judges as the ultimate...would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." (emphasis added) In the same letter President Jefferson wrote: "The constitution has erected no such... | |
 | Bob Gingrich - 2006 - 262 Seiten
...inherent in an out-ofcontrol judiciary branch including this one contained in a letter to William Jarvis: "You seem ... to consider the judges as the ultimate...would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so ... and their power (is) the more dangerous,... | |
 | Bob Gingrich - 2006 - 261 Seiten
...inherent in an out-ofcontrol judiciary branch including this one contained in a letter to William Jarvis: "You seem ... to consider the judges as the ultimate...would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so ... and their power (is) the more dangerous,... | |
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You seem, in pages 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,... 
