 | Charles Austin Beard - United States - 1910 - 676 pages
...occurred while I was in office, are better known to me, and the principles which governed them. . . . The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers The Federal Judiciary 283 and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the The foundations... | |
 | Charles Warren - Courts - 1911 - 608 pages
...of the Legislatures of Pennsylvania 1 On December 25, 1820, Jefferson had written to Thomas Ritchie: "The judiciary of the United States is the subtle...special government to a general and supreme one alone. . . . Having found from experience that impeachment is an impracticable thing, a mere scare-crow, they... | |
 | Robert William McLaughlin - Biography & Autobiography - 1912 - 324 pages
...is a pronounced consolidating tendency. Jefferson perceived this and feared it. In 1820, he wrote: "They are construing our Constitution from a co-ordination...special government to a general and supreme one alone. " ' Again in 1821, he wrote: "The great object of my fear is the Federal Judiciary. That body, like... | |
 | Wilbur Henry Siebert - American loyalists - 1913 - 422 pages
...miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric .... construing our constitution from a co-ordination of...special government to a general and supreme one alone." Letter to Ritchie, Dec. 26, 1820, ibid., VII, 192. Cf. 212, 223, 294. "The original objects of the... | |
 | William Bennett Bizzell - Courts - 1914 - 292 pages
...Republic. Jefferson had this assumption of power by the courts in mind when he used the following language: "The judiciary of the United States is the subtle...undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric," and Professor Burgess in discussing this doctrine in a recent work speaks of the Supreme Court as the... | |
 | Charles Richard Williams - Presidents - 1914 - 610 pages
...and Madison. "The judiciary of the United States," wrote Jefferson in bitterness of spirit in 1820, " is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly...undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. 1 Book in, chap. iv. They are construing our Constitution from a coordination of a general and special... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - History - 1915 - 634 pages
...State, though enacted in the exercise of powers not controverted, must yield to it. Monticello, Dec. 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... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - History - 1915 - 632 pages
...State, though enacted in the exercise of powers not controverted, must yield to it. Monticello, Dec. 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... | |
 | Carl Lotus Becker - United States - 1915 - 414 pages
...legislative, steadily by the judiciary. " The judiciary of the United States," wrote Jefferson in 1820, "is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly...working underground to undermine the foundations of our confederate fabric. They are constantly construing our constitution from a coordination of a general... | |
 | Thomas Edward Watson - United States - 1916 - 598 pages
...spirit of the Government entirely changed. In his well-known letter to Thomas Ritchie, he declared: "The Judiciary of the United States is the subtle...special government to a general and supreme one alone." In a letter to Judge Johnson, he says : "I cannot lay down my pen without recurring to one of the subjects... | |
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The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working underground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. 
