 | Law - 1907 - 564 pages
...federal courts. The words of Thomas Jefferson were prophetic, but the prophecy has been fulfilled : The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps...sappers and miners, constantly working underground to mine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our Constitution from a co-ordination... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1923 - 168 pages
...Federal Judiciary utterly overlook the fact that in those familiar diatribes about its being the "subtle sappers and miners, constantly working underground...undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric" — "the inroads daily making by the Federal Court" — "that body, ever acting with noiseless foot... | |
 | Pennsylvania Bar Association - Bar associations - 1897 - 396 pages
...fears were expressed by Mr. Jefferson as late as 1820, in his letter to Mr. Ritchie, when he said, " 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... | |
 | Colorado Bar Association - Bar associations - 1918 - 304 pages
...Federal Courts, The words of Thomas Jefferson were prophetic, but the prophecy has been fulfilled : "The judiciary of the United States is the subtle...sappers and miners, constantly working underground to mine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our Constitution from a coordination... | |
 | United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations - Federal government - 1981 - 272 pages
...of union rather than confederation. From Jefferson to Calhoun: The Constitution and States' Rights The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps...special government to a general and supreme one alone. This will lay all things at their feet. . . . An opinion is huddled upon in conclave, perhaps by a... | |
 | Maeva Marcus - Law - 1992 - 321 pages
...appellate authority over the state courts. Jefferson put his oar in, condemning the federal judiciary as a "subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working...underground to undermine the foundations of our confederated republic."13 Marshall for his part defended his views in McCulloch in nine newspaper essays written... | |
 | John C. Donovan - Business & Economics - 1993 - 374 pages
...of Courts and Judges The discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny. — THOMAS GIBBON 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. — THOMAS JEFFERSON Let justice... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...king or executive alone, is a good thing, 943 is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property, 328 of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners, 943 June what is so rare as a day in J., 2072 Juries can censor, suppress, and punish, 167 Just cause,... | |
 | William Quirk, R. Randall Bridwell - Law - 1995 - 162 pages
...Jefferson wrote to Thomas Ritchie on December 25, 1820 that it is not the Congress "we have most to fear." 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, James Madison - 1995 - 730 pages
...States," he wrote in 1820, "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 from a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone. This will lay all things at their... | |
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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. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government... 
