 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 678 pages
...I do not choose to put it into a newspaper, nor, like a Priam in armor, offer myself its champion,) that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow,)... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 292 pages
...the 18th of August, 1821, Mr. Jefferson writes to Mr. C. Hammond, as follows : It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its...of dissolution of our Federal Government is in the constitution of the Federal Judiciary— an irresponsible body, working like gravity by night and by... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 270 pages
...the 18th of August, 1821, Mr. Jefferson writes to Mr. C. Hammond, as follows : It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its...of dissolution of our Federal Government is in the constitution of the Federal Judiciary — an irresponsible body, working like gravity by night and... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 268 pages
...18th of August, 1821, Mr. Jefferson writes to Mr. C. Hammond, as follows: It lias long, however, heen my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression,...of dissolution of our Federal Government is in the constitution of the Federal Judiciary — an irresponsible body, working like gravity by night and... | |
 | Campaign literature, 1860 - 1860 - 270 pages
...Jefferson writes to Mr. C. Hammond, as follows : It has long, however, been my opinion, and I hare never shrunk from its expression, that the germ of dissolution of our Federal Government is in the constitution of the Federal Judiciary — an irresponsible body, working like gravity by night and... | |
 | United States - 1903 - 696 pages
...proving them well-founded. "It has long been my opinion," he says (Works, VII., 216), "and I«have never shrunk from its expression, that the germ of dissolution of our Federal government is in the constitution of the Federal judiciary — an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scarecrow),... | |
 | Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia - 1898 - 198 pages
...jurisdiction. Citations from his correspondence will show this tendency: "It has long been my opinion, * * * that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of our federal judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow),... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1910 - 312 pages
...to the power of the Federal judiciary. In a letter written a few years before his death, he said : "It has long been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression (although I do not choose to put it into newspaper, nor, like a Priam in armor, offer myself its champion),... | |
 | Roady Kenehan - Blacksmithing - 1912 - 652 pages
...constructive statesman of either the eighteenth or nineteenth century, said — I quote from Jefferson: "It has long been my opinion, and I have never shrunk...irresponsible body working like gravity by day and night, gaining a little today and gaining a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1900 - 568 pages
...holding office for life, responsible to no one. "It has long been my opinion," he wrote to a friend, "and I have never shrunk from its expression, that...of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary, an irresponsible body working like gravity by day and by night,... | |
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... gaining a little to-day and a little to-morrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped... 
