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 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 676 pages
...priming-knife ; and I doubt not it will be employed ; good principles being as yet prevalent enough for that. The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary....ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulphing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them. The recent recall... | |
 | 1887 - 764 pages
...but I quote a few of his utterances. " Mr. Jefferson wrote to Judge Roan, March 9, 1821 : "The {jreat object of my fear is the Federal judiciary. That body,...like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot and unalarrnmg advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1890 - 386 pages
...rulings announced, than they roused the last combative energies of Jefferson against his old enemy the Judiciary : " That body, like gravity, ever acting,...is engulfing insidiously the special governments.." Marshall had few occasions to decide Constitutional points during the Administrations of Jefferson... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1890 - 386 pages
...old enemy the Judiciary : " That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot and unalarmiug advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding...is engulfing insidiously the special governments." Marshall had few occasions to decide Constitutional points during the Administrations of Jefferson... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1891 - 386 pages
...rulings announced, than they roused the last combative energies of Jefferson against his old enemy the Judiciary : " That body, like gravity, ever acting,...is engulfing insidiously the special governments." Marshall had few occasions to decide Constitutional points during the Administrations of Jefferson... | |
 | Harry Pratt Judson - 1895 - 386 pages
...Ohio becomes a state. Shaler, I., 527. ' ' That body, like gravity, ever acting with noiseless feet and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments." Throughout all these opening years of the nineteenth... | |
 | Colorado Bar Association - 1901 - 730 pages
...frequently expressed the fear that the liberties of the country were endangered by the Federal judiciary. He said: "The great object of my fear is the Federal...ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them." * Sentiments... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 516 pages
...pruning-knife ; and I doubt not it will be employed ; good principles being as yet prevalent enough for that. The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary....ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulphing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them. The recent recall... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1900 - 494 pages
...other two, and to the common sense of the nation, proclaims eral judiciary. That body, like gravity, with noiseless foot and unalarming advance, gaining...ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulphing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them. (To Judge Roane,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...a farce that will not be tried again. (To William B. Giles, 1807. CV, 68.) JUDICIARY, FEDERAL. — The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, with noiseless foot and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains,... | |
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