 | Homer Carey Hockett - Political parties - 1917 - 170 pages
...but real federalists" (Washington, Writings of Jeffsrson, VII, 278), and described the judiciary as the "subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly...undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric .... construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general... | |
 | Michigan State Bar Association - 1917 - 662 pages
...his defeat. We find him after the lapse of fifteen years writing this to his friend, Thomas Ritchie: "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... | |
 | Ohio State University - History - 1917 - 168 pages
...but real federalists" (Washington, Writings of Jefferson, VII, 278), and described the judiciary as the "subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly...undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric .... construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - United States - 1921 - 650 pages
...what he considers a dangerous usurpation of power by the Supreme Court : Monticello, Dec. 25, 1820 are construing our constitution from a coordination...a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone. This will lay all things at their feet, and they are too well versed in the English... | |
 | Richard Franklin Pettigrew - United States - 1921 - 938 pages
...tyranny as this that breeds anarchy. Let us read again the earnest and warning words of Jefferson : "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. ... I will say, that against this... | |
 | Charles Warren - Law - 1922 - 594 pages
...States," he wrote, in 1820, "is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working underground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric....a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone." "The steady tenor of the Courts of the United States," he wrote again, "is to break... | |
 | Richard Franklin Pettigrew - United States - 1922 - 460 pages
...tyranny as this that breeds anarchy. Let us read again the earnest and warning words of Jefferson: "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. ... I will say, that against this... | |
 | Everett Kimball - Local government - 1924 - 800 pages
...reversing them. Jefferson, in attacking the Federalist proclivities of the court under Marshall, said, "The Judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working underground to undermine the foundations of our constitutional fabric." And the unsuccessful impeachJefferson's... | |
 | Homer Carey Hockett - United States - 1925 - 470 pages
...as a "retraction of the government to its original principles." He denounced the Supreme Court as a "subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working...undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric." The Young Republicans he stigmatized as "pseudo-republicans but real federalists." The history of the... | |
 | James Francis Lawson - Constitutional history - 1926 - 408 pages
...driving us into consolidation," and he urges Roane and others to resistance. To Ritchie, he says:1* The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working underground to undermine the foundation of our Confederated fabric. They are construing the Constitution... | |
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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 from a co-ordination of a general and special government... 
