May 28 2009
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“ It has long been my opinion 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 scare-crow working like gravity by night and by day gaining a little today and a little tomorrow and advancing its noiseless step like a thief over the field of jurisdiction until all shall be usurped from the States and the government be consolidated into one. To this I am opposed.” —Thomas Jefferson to Charles Hammond 1821. ME 15 331
