| Kermit L. Hall - 2000 - 506 pągines
...nearly 100 years before the Lottery Case that Thomas Jefferson said of the Marshall Court that it was "the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly...underground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric."4' You will recall that the commerce clause concerns a grant of power to Congress. It is found... | |
| R. Kent Newmyer - 2001 - 552 pągines
...expounding its republican character and the full meaning of its powers, shall now be seen. Embattled Chief The Judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps...undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a coordination of a general and special government to a general... | |
| Cynthia L. Cates, Wayne V. McIntosh - 2001 - 264 pągines
...judiciary in general and Marshall's Supreme Court in particular. For example, Jefferson calls the judiciary "the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working underground to undermine the foundation of our confederated fabric. They are construing our Constitution from a coordination of... | |
| Kermit L. Hall - 2001 - 806 pągines
...Lottery Case that Thomas Jefferson said of the Marshall Court that it was "the suhtle corps of sappen and miners constantly working underground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fahric"4* You will recall that the commerce clause conceros a grant of power to Congress. It is found... | |
| James F. Simon - 2003 - 356 pągines
...Ritchie sent Jefferson a copy of Taylor's manifesto, which the former president received with gratitude. "The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric," Jefferson told Ritchie. He remained... | |
| Clement A. Evans - 2004 - 784 pągines
...influence of judicial interpretation, the government was in great danger, and he wrote to Thomas Ritchie: "The judiciary of the United States is the subtle...undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric * * * a judiciary independent of a king or executive alone :sa good thing, but independence of the... | |
| Evan Haynes - 2005 - 328 pągines
...of abuses of constitutional power is to educate the people." A few months later in another letter : "The judiciary of the United States is the subtle...sappers and miners constantly working underground to uncommissions to judges for six years (the senatorial term) with a re-appointment by the president... | |
| Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 2005 - 705 pągines
...cannot be practically enforced but by a fair and liberal interpretation of its powers. (William Rnkney.) The Judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. (Jefferson.) The government of... | |
| Charles Gardner Geyh - 2006 - 352 pągines
...Representative Melville Kelly, who quoted Thomas Jefferson for the proposition that "[t]he judiciary is a subtle corps of sappers and miners, constantly working...undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric," who "consider themselves secure" after "[hjaving found from experience that impeachment is an impracticable... | |
| Robert F. Hawes - 2006 - 357 pągines
...spoke even more harshly of the Supreme Court in a letter to Thomas Ritchie, dated December 25, 1820: The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution... | |
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