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...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...

...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...

...the spirit of the whole nation."51 Those beliefs led him to say in 1820 that the federal judiciary is "the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly...underground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric,"52 a charge he repeated again and again.53 Echoing earlier Puritan misgivings, he came to believe...

...Jefferson singled out the Supreme Court for special attack. "The judiciary," he told Thomas Ritchie, "is a subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working...underground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric."68 To Albert Gallatin he confided his fear that Congress would soon outlaw slavery throughout...

...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...

...December 25, 1820, Jefferson had written to Thomas Ritchie: "The judiciary of the United States fa the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly...special government to a general and supreme one alone. . . . Having found from experience that impeachment fa aa impracticable thing, a mere scare-crow, they...

...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...

...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...special government to a general and supreme one alone. —Jefferson on the Marshall Court A deep design to convert our government into a meer league of States...

...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...