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  • A penalty can be only inflicted in two ways: by the courts or by military force—by COERCION of the judiciary or by COERCION of arms.†   (source)
  • In 1928, despite his continued differences with the Republican party and its administrations, the Nebraska Senator was one of the party's most prominent members, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a potential Presidential nominee.†   (source)
  • The legislature both imposes taxes and sets the wages of the executive and judiciary branches.†   (source)
  • The present federal government has no judiciary power.†   (source)
  • This would have given opponents another pretext to talk against the judiciary.†   (source)
  • There have been questions about the proposed Constitution, especially the judiciary branch.†   (source)
  • The Senate is the impeachment court for members of the executive and judiciary.†   (source)
  • To judge the proper extent of the federal judiciary, we must consider its objectives.†   (source)
  • People could immediately see and stop usurpation attempts by the executive or judiciary.†   (source)
  • But if the judiciary unites with either of the other branches, liberty will be in danger.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the executive and judiciary branches would usually request a convention.†   (source)
  • Liberty has nothing to fear from the judiciary alone.†   (source)
  • Lastly, the danger of judiciary encroachments on the legislative authority is often mentioned.†   (source)
  • And they won't exceed the limits of the federal judiciary.†   (source)
  • The judiciary, however, doesn't have a sword or a purse.†   (source)
  • The judiciary must have the authority to enforce its resolutions.†   (source)
  • The judiciary is the weakest of the three branches of power.†   (source)
  • The federal judiciary will unite and assimilate the principles of national justice.†   (source)
  • We will now examine the judiciary branch of the proposed government.†   (source)
  • Several States have already felt the benefits of an honest and moderate judiciary.†   (source)
  • The national judiciary will not have jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • And an appeal from State courts will naturally be to the federal judiciary.†   (source)
  • They become impatient when the executive or judiciary exercise their rights.†   (source)
  • Yet the chief executive and the judiciary have partial control over the legislature.†   (source)
  • It says the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be separate.†   (source)
  • These principles apply to both judiciary and legislative power.†   (source)
  • 1 Montesquieu says: "Of the three powers above mentioned, the judiciary is next to nothing."†   (source)
  • The executive and judiciary branches have fewer members than the legislative.†   (source)
  • Others reply that the judiciary already has too much power.†   (source)
  • It is clear that a federal judiciary is needed.†   (source)
  • The legislature appoint all principal offices, both executive and judiciary.†   (source)
  • And the legislature has frequently heard and judged cases belonging to the judiciary.†   (source)
  • Eventually, the executive and judiciary branches might become dangerously close.†   (source)
  • A strong party might agree with the executive or judiciary.†   (source)
  • If the judiciary had to depend on the other branches, we would see the negative effects.†   (source)
  • The judiciary has neither FORCE nor WILL, merely judgment.†   (source)
  • This conclusion is strengthened by the important constitutional check on the judiciary.†   (source)
  • Number 78: Federal Judiciary: Term: Good Behavior†   (source)
  • The Confederation's worst defect is the lack of a judiciary power.†   (source)
  • These principles should regulate the federal judiciary.†   (source)
  • Number 79: Judiciary: Independence, Salary, Impeachment†   (source)
  • Federal Judiciary Conforms to Principles†   (source)
  • I never have approved and never can approve the repeal of taxes, the repeal of the judiciary system, or the neglect of the navy.†   (source)
  • The American Congress, the country's doctrine of separation of powers, as well as the independence of its judiciary, arouse in me similar sentiments.†   (source)
  • A Judiciary Act was deliberated and passed, establishing a federal court system, and set the size of the Supreme Court.†   (source)
  • I regard the British Parliament as the mostdemocratic institution in the world, and the independence and impartiality of its judiciary never fail to arouse my admiration.†   (source)
  • He spoke of the need for amending the judiciary system, and congratulated the Congress for the revenue that year, the largest of any year thus far.†   (source)
  • I will tell Your Worship why: the real purpose of this rigid color bar is to ensure that the justice dispensed by the courts should conform to the policy of the country, however much that policy might be in conflict with the norms of justice accepted in judiciaries throughout the civilized world...Your Worship, I hate racial discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations.†   (source)
  • For Adams, who had solong championed a strong, independent judiciary as proper balance to the other two branches, it was a major improvement and he proceeded at once to fill the new positions.†   (source)
  • And in rejecting the rule of the juryless Admiralty Court in enforcing this law, the instructions declared that there must be a trial by jury and an independent judiciary.†   (source)
  • IN THE LAME-DUCK Federalist Senate, meanwhile, an act expanding the Federal judiciary, something that Adams had proposed more than a year earlier, was passed into law.†   (source)
  • There must be three parts to government—executive, legislative, and judicial—and to achieve balance it was essential that it be a strong executive, a bicameral legislature, and an independent judiciary.†   (source)
  • Among his first decisions after taking office was to release from jail those sentenced for violating the Sedition Act, and with the avid support of the Republican majority in Congress, he did away with Adams's Judiciary Act and the new circuit courts.†   (source)
  • But it was the establishment of an independent judiciary, with judges of the Supreme Court appointed, not elected, and for life ("as long as they behave themselves well"), that Adams made one of his greatest contributions not only to Massachusetts but to the country, as time would tell.†   (source)
  • As time ticked away in the "castle house," as he called it, Adams kept steadily at work, awaiting decisions in Congress on a judiciary bill that mattered greatly to him, the fate of the peace treaty, which mattered above all, and ultimately February I I, when the electoral vote would be officially declared and the House would go into special session to resolve the Jefferson-Burr tie.†   (source)
  • And the structures of some of the State judiciary systems are improper channels of the Union's judicial authority.†   (source)
  • Why separate the executive or the judiciary from the legislative, if the legislative can void the acts of both the executive and the judiciary?†   (source)
  • The chief executive and his council appoint judges and form an impeachment court for trial of officers, judiciary and executive.†   (source)
  • The government must be designed so that the three branches—executive, legislative, and judiciary—can keep each other in their proper places.†   (source)
  • First, the power usurpation will only succeed if the executive and judiciary departments, which execute and interpret legislative acts, support it.†   (source)
  • For these reasons, the national judiciary should not use the system proposed by the Pennsylvania minority.†   (source)
  • If rebellious individuals opposed national laws, the judiciary would guard the laws from illegal or immoral behavior.†   (source)
  • * Maintaining Independent Judiciary†   (source)
  • In the State constitutions, the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments aren't kept totally separate.†   (source)
  • The same reasons argue against giving the judiciary power, in the last resort, in a body of men, who serve for a limited period.†   (source)
  • * In the New Jersey constitution, also, the final judiciary authority is in a branch of the legislature.†   (source)
  • Or it could mean that the national judiciary should be one Supreme Court and as many lower courts as Congress appoints.†   (source)
  • Yet the legislature appoints the chief executive and all the principal officers within both the executive and the judiciary.†   (source)
  • Political science hasn't been able to define the exact boundaries between the legislative, executive, and judiciary branches of government.†   (source)
  • A government becomes a tyranny when one person or a group of people holds all of government's powers—legislative, executive, and judiciary.†   (source)
  • The judiciary is even more limited.†   (source)
  • If we wanted total separation of powers, the people would elect every member of the executive, legislative, and judiciary branches.†   (source)
  • However, if the judiciary is separate from the legislature and the executive branches, it will not be dangerous to the general liberty of the people.†   (source)
  • When the government's powers are separated into three branches, the judiciary is the least dangerous to constitutional rights.†   (source)
  • And the structure in the Constitution fulfills the maxim better than making the federal judiciary part of the legislature.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the federal judiciary should have jurisdiction in all cases concerning the citizens of other countries.†   (source)
  • The federal executive and judiciary might be discussed here as constitutional provisions that give efficacy to the federal powers.†   (source)
  • Also, if the Constitution gave the power to try impeachments to the Supreme Court, it would have increased the authority of the judiciary.†   (source)
  • Some people say that the trial of impeachments by the Senate is wrong: they believe the judiciary should have this power.†   (source)
  • However, the British legislative, executive, and judiciary departments are not totally separate from each other.†   (source)
  • The specific powers of the federal judiciary, as stated in the Constitution, seem to conform to the principles that govern the structure of the judiciary.†   (source)
  • Judiciary Enforces Legislation†   (source)
  • Federal Judiciary New Institution†   (source)
  • Judiciary: Specific Qualifications†   (source)
  • The structure of the federal judiciary includes: the method of appointing judges, their tenure in office, and the judicial authority of the different courts and their relationship to each other.†   (source)
  • In Notes on the State of Virginia, page 195, Mr. Jefferson says that all of government's powers—legislative, executive, judiciary revert to the legislative body.†   (source)
  • Number 82: Federal-State Judiciary†   (source)
  • The constitution of Georgia declares "that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments shall be separate and distinct, so that neither exercises the powers properly belonging to the other."†   (source)
  • Legislative, Executive, Judiciary†   (source)
  • Structure of Federal Judiciary†   (source)
  • Therefore, to keep the equality of privileges and immunities, the national judiciary should preside in all cases where one State or its citizens are opposed by another State or its citizens.†   (source)
  • Judiciary in State Constitutions†   (source)
  • The two judiciary courts—the imperial chamber and the aulic council—have final jurisdiction in controversies concerning the empire or among its states.†   (source)
  • The judiciary and executive branches were left dependent on the legislative for their subsistence in office, and some of them for their continuance in it.†   (source)
  • For this reason, the convention that organized [Virginia's] government made the legislative, executive, and judiciary separate and distinct, so that no person should exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time.†   (source)
  • Another group of adversaries to the Constitution says the legislative, executive, and judiciary are intertwined, which contradicts all the ideas of regular government and all the required precautions in favor of liberty.†   (source)
  • The legislature has often "decided rights which should have been left to judiciary controversy, and the direction of the executive, during the whole time of their session, is becoming habitual and familiar."†   (source)
  • If, therefore, the legislature assumes executive and judiciary powers, no opposition is likely to be made; nor, if made, can be effectual because" they can create "acts of Assembly", which the other branches must okay.†   (source)
  • And an ordinary degree of prudence and integrity in the national councils will insure that we have the advantages of the proposed judiciary without exposing us to the inconveniences that have been predicted.†   (source)
  • Federal Judiciary Necessary†   (source)
  • Virginia's Constitution declares, "that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments shall be separate and distinct; so that neither exercise the powers properly belonging to the other; nor shall any person exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time, except that the justices of county courts shall be eligible to either House of Assembly."†   (source)
  • It says "that the legislative, executive, and judiciary powers ought to be kept as separate from, and independent of, each other as the nature of a free government will admit; or as is consistent with that chain of connection that binds the whole fabric of the constitution in one indissoluble bond of unity and amity," The New Hampshire constitution mixes the three departments in several ways.†   (source)
  • The federal judiciary is to decide "all cases in law and equity arising
    under the Constitution, the laws of the United States,
    "and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;
    "to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls;
    "to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;
    "to controversies to which the Unite†   (source)
  • The judiciary is weak.†   (source)
  • The American Congress, that country's doctrine of separation of powers, as well as the independence of its judiciary, arouses in me similar sentiments.†   (source)
  • I regard the British Parliament as the most democratic institution in the world, and the independence and impartiality of its judiciary never fails to arouse my admiration.†   (source)
  • Our King saw that the one thing needful was to restore order: to curb the excessive powers of local government, which were usually exercised for selfish and often for seditious ends, and to systematise the judiciary.†   (source)
  • Her father retired from the judiciary when she was eleven, and took the family to Minneapolis.†   (source)
  • This organisation even maintains a high-level judiciary along with its train of countless servants, scribes, policemen and all the other assistance that it needs, perhaps even executioners and torturers — I'm not afraid of using those words.†   (source)
  • Robespierre, Danton, Marat, she had not known in their new guise of bloody judiciaries, merciless wielders of the guillotine.†   (source)
  • Towards evening on that day, when the judiciary officers of the bishop came to pick up from the pavement of the Parvis the dislocated corpse of the archdeacon, Quasimodo had disappeared.†   (source)
  • The separation of the judiciary from the administrative power of the State no doubt affects the security of every citizen and the liberty of all.†   (source)
  • *d It was easy to proclaim the principle of a Federal judiciary, but difficulties multiplied when the extent of its jurisdiction was to be determined.†   (source)
  • The Union, therefore, required a national judiciary to enforce the obedience of the citizens to the laws, and to repeal the attacks which might be directed against them.†   (source)
  • The American legislators therefore agreed to create a federal judiciary power to apply the laws of the Union, and to determine certain questions affecting general interests, which were carefully determined beforehand.†   (source)
  • Political importance of the judiciary in the United States—Difficulty of treating this subject—Utility of judicial power in confederations—What tribunals could be introduced into the Union—Necessity of establishing federal courts of justice—Organization of the national judiciary—The Supreme Court—In what it differs from all known tribunals.†   (source)
  • If, on the other hand, a legislative power could be so constituted as to represent the majority without necessarily being the slave of its passions; an executive, so as to retain a certain degree of uncontrolled authority; and a judiciary, so as to remain independent of the two other powers; a government would be formed which would still be democratic without incurring any risk of tyrannical abuse.†   (source)
  • Judiciary, Taxes, etc. ] The election of public officers, or the inalienability of their functions, the absence of a gradation of powers, and the introduction of a judicial control over the secondary branches of the administration, are the universal characteristics of the American system from Maine to the Floridas.†   (source)
  • Procedure Of The Federal Courts Natural weakness of the judiciary power in confederations—Legislators ought to strive as much as possible to bring private individuals, and not States, before the Federal Courts—How the Americans have succeeded in this—Direct prosecution of private individuals in the Federal Courts—Indirect prosecution of the States which violate the laws of the Union—The decrees of the Supreme Court enervate but do not destroy the provincial laws.†   (source)
  • 81 — The Judiciary Continued, and the Distribution of the Judicial Authority.†   (source)
  • This I infer from the nature of judiciary power, and from the general genius of the system.†   (source)
  • In that of New Jersey, also, the final judiciary authority is in a branch of the legislature.†   (source)
  • And the members of the judiciary department are appointed by the executive department.†   (source)
  • The judiciary authority of the Union is to extend: Second.†   (source)
  • All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body.†   (source)
  • 83 — The Judiciary Continued in Relation to Trial by Jury.†   (source)
  • Republique: Sometimes in the insignificant Speeches of Mad-men, supposed to be possessed with a divine Spirit; which Possession they called Enthusiasme; and these kinds of foretelling events, were accounted Theomancy, or Prophecy; Sometimes in the aspect of the Starres at their Nativity; which was called Horoscopy, and esteemed a part of judiciary Astrology: Sometimes in their own hopes and feares, called Thumomancy, or Presage: Sometimes in the Prediction of Witches, that pretended conference with the dead; which is called Necromancy, Conjuring, and Witchcraft; and is but juggling and confederate knavery: Sometimes in the Casuall flight, or feeding of birds; called Augury: Sometimes in th†   (source)
  • This being as it is, it is clear that this ape speaks by the spirit of the devil; and I am astonished they have not denounced him to the Holy Office, and put him to the question, and forced it out of him by whose virtue it is that he divines; because it is certain this ape is not an astrologer; neither his master nor he sets up, or knows how to set up, those figures they call judiciary, which are now so common in Spain that there is not a jade, or page, or old cobbler, that will not undertake to set up a figure as readily as pick up a knave of cards from the ground, bringing to nought the marvellous truth of the science by their lies and ignorance.†   (source)
  • A circumstance which crowns the defects of the Confederation remains yet to be mentioned, the want of a judiciary power.†   (source)
  • It might, however, sometimes happen, that appeals would be made under circumstances less adverse to the executive and judiciary departments.†   (source)
  • 1 The celebrated Montesquieu, speaking of them, says: "Of the three powers above mentioned, the judiciary is next to nothing."†   (source)
  • The appeals to the people, therefore, would usually be made by the executive and judiciary departments.†   (source)
  • The most bigoted idolizers of State authority have not thus far shown a disposition to deny the national judiciary the cognizances of maritime causes.†   (source)
  • The members of the executive and judiciary departments are few in number, and can be personally known to a small part only of the people.†   (source)
  • To the People of the State of New York: WE PROCEED now to an examination of the judiciary department of the proposed government.†   (source)
  • 80 — The Powers of the Judiciary.†   (source)
  • The partition of the judiciary authority between different courts, and their relations to each other.†   (source)
  • Such questions, accordingly, have arisen upon the plan proposed by the convention, and particularly concerning the judiciary department.†   (source)
  • The members of the judiciary department, again, are appointable by the executive department, and removable by the same authority on the address of the two legislative branches.†   (source)
  • To what purpose separate the executive or the judiciary from the legislative, if both the executive and the judiciary are so constituted as to be at the absolute devotion of the legislative?†   (source)
  • It may in the last place be observed that the supposed danger of judiciary encroachments on the legislative authority, which has been upon many occasions reiterated, is in reality a phantom.†   (source)
  • I forbear to remark upon the additional pretext for clamor against the judiciary, which so considerable an augmentation of its authority would have afforded.†   (source)
  • The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever.†   (source)
  • 78 — The Judiciary Department.†   (source)
  • The judiciary and the executive members were left dependent on the legislative for their subsistence in office, and some of them for their continuance in it.†   (source)
  • 79 — The Judiciary Continued.†   (source)
  • Her constitution, notwithstanding, makes the executive magistrate appointable by the legislative department; and the members of the judiciary by the executive department.†   (source)
  • In its council of appointment members of the legislative are associated with the executive authority, in the appointment of officers, both executive and judiciary.†   (source)
  • In conjunction with an executive council, he appoints the members of the judiciary department, and forms a court of impeachment for trial of all officers, judiciary as well as executive.†   (source)
  • On the slightest view of the British Constitution, we must perceive that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments are by no means totally separate and distinct from each other.†   (source)
  • The members of the judiciary department are appointed by the legislative department and removable by one branch of it, on the impeachment of the other.†   (source)
  • And its court for the trial of impeachments and correction of errors is to consist of one branch of the legislature and the principal members of the judiciary department.†   (source)
  • 82 — The Judiciary Continued.†   (source)
  • The only outlines described for them, are that they shall be "inferior to the Supreme Court," and that they shall not exceed the specified limits of the federal judiciary.†   (source)
  • "We concur fully," reply others, "in the objection to this part of the plan, but we can never agree that a reference of impeachments to the judiciary authority would be an amendment of the error.†   (source)
  • In citing these cases, in which the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments have not been kept totally separate and distinct, I wish not to be regarded as an advocate for the particular organizations of the several State governments.†   (source)
  • For this reason, that convention which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be separate and distinct, so that no person should exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time.†   (source)
  • These appeared to be conclusive reasons against incorporating the systems of all the States, in the formation of the national judiciary, according to what may be conjectured to have been the attempt of the Pennsylvania minority.†   (source)
  • To the People of the State of New York: IT WAS shown in the last paper that the political apothegm there examined does not require that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be wholly unconnected with each other.†   (source)
  • The FIRST of these objections is, that the provision in question confounds legislative and judiciary authorities in the same body, in violation of that important and wellestablished maxim which requires a separation between the different departments of power.†   (source)
  • The foundation of this assertion is, that the national judiciary will have no cognizance of them, and of course they will remain determinable as heretofore by the State courts only, and in the manner which the State constitutions and laws prescribe.†   (source)
  • The benefits of the integrity and moderation of the judiciary have already been felt in more States than one; and though they may have displeased those whose sinister expectations they may have disappointed, they must have commanded the esteem and applause of all the virtuous and disinterested.†   (source)
  • It proves incontestably, that the judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power1; that it can never attack with success either of the other two; and that all possible care is requisite to enable it to defend itself against their attacks.†   (source)
  • After discriminating, therefore, in theory, the several classes of power, as they may in their nature be legislative, executive, or judiciary, the next and most difficult task is to provide some practical security for each, against the invasion of the others.†   (source)
  • The judiciary power of every government looks beyond its own local or municipal laws, and in civil cases lays hold of all subjects of litigation between parties within its jurisdiction, though the causes of dispute are relative to the laws of the most distant part of the globe.†   (source)
  • Were this principle rigorously adhered to, it would require that all the appointments for the supreme executive, legislative, and judiciary magistracies should be drawn from the same fountain of authority, the people, through channels having no communication whatever with one another.†   (source)
  • They have accordingly, IN MANY instances, DECIDED RIGHTS which should have been left to JUDICIARY CONTROVERSY, and THE DIRECTION OF THE EXECUTIVE, DURING THE WHOLE TIME OF THEIR SESSION, IS BECOMING HABITUAL AND FAMILIAR.†   (source)
  • All the members of the judiciary department are appointed by him, can be removed by him on the address of the two Houses of Parliament, and form, when he pleases to consult them, one of his constitutional councils.†   (source)
  • No part of the arrangement, according to some, is more inadmissible than the trial of impeachments by the Senate, which is alternately a member both of the legislative and executive departments, when this power so evidently belonged to the judiciary department.†   (source)
  • The executive magistrate has a qualified negative on the legislative body, and the Senate, which is a part of the legislature, is a court of impeachment for members both of the executive and judiciary departments.†   (source)
  • One of the principal objections inculcated by the more respectable adversaries to the Constitution, is its supposed violation of the political maxim, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments ought to be separate and distinct.†   (source)
  • Some perplexity respecting the rights of the courts to pronounce legislative acts void, because contrary to the Constitution, has arisen from an imagination that the doctrine would imply a superiority of the judiciary to the legislative power.†   (source)
  • On the other side, the executive power being restrained within a narrower compass, and being more simple in its nature, and the judiciary being described by landmarks still less uncertain, projects of usurpation by either of these departments would immediately betray and defeat themselves.†   (source)
  • If, therefore, the legislature assumes executive and judiciary powers, no opposition is likely to be made; nor, if made, can be effectual; because in that case they may put their proceedings into the form of acts of Assembly, which will render them obligatory on the other branches.†   (source)
  • Though these principles may not apply with the same force to the judiciary as to the legislative power, yet I am inclined to think that they are, in the main, just with respect to the former, as well as the latter.†   (source)
  • The salaries of the judges, which the constitution expressly requires to be fixed, had been occasionally varied; and cases belonging to the judiciary department frequently drawn within legislative cognizance and determination.†   (source)
  • Having thus laid down and discussed the principles which ought to regulate the constitution of the federal judiciary, we will proceed to test, by these principles, the particular powers of which, according to the plan of the convention, it is to be composed.†   (source)
  • According to the provisions of most of the constitutions, again, as well as according to the most respectable and received opinions on the subject, the members of the judiciary department are to retain their offices by the firm tenure of good behavior.†   (source)
  • Either this must be the case, or the local courts must be excluded from a concurrent jurisdiction in matters of national concern, else the judiciary authority of the Union may be eluded at the pleasure of every plaintiff or prosecutor.†   (source)
  • The proportion, in point of numbers, of the chancellor and judges to the senators, is so inconsiderable, that the judiciary authority of New York, in the last resort, may, with truth, be said to reside in its Senate.†   (source)
  • It gives, nevertheless, to the executive magistrate, a partial control over the legislative department; and, what is more, gives a like control to the judiciary department; and even blends the executive and judiciary departments in the exercise of this control.†   (source)
  • As the denial or perversion of justice by the sentences of courts, as well as in any other manner, is with reason classed among the just causes of war, it will follow that the federal judiciary ought to have cognizance of all causes in which the citizens of other countries are concerned.†   (source)
  • The entire legislature can perform no judiciary act, though by the joint act of two of its branches the judges may be removed from their offices, and though one of its branches is possessed of the judicial power in the last resort.†   (source)
  • It gives to the latter, also, the appointment of the members of the judiciary department, including even justices of the peace and sheriffs; and the appointment of officers in the executive department, down to captains in the army and navy of the State.†   (source)
  • The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.†   (source)
  • It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter; I mean so long as the judiciary remains truly distinct from both the legislature and the Executive.†   (source)
  • Among the provisions for giving efficacy to the federal powers might be added those which belong to the executive and judiciary departments: but as these are reserved for particular examination in another place, I pass them over in this.†   (source)
  • From this review of the particular powers of the federal judiciary, as marked out in the Constitution, it appears that they are all conformable to the principles which ought to have governed the structure of that department, and which were necessary to the perfection of the system.†   (source)
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