"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 of all be
consolidated into one."
--Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Charles Hammond, 1821
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