...republic, Jefferson had warned his first appointee to the Court, Associate Justice William Johnson, than "the consolidation of our government by the noiseless,...unalarming instrumentality of the Supreme Court." But nothing, it seemed, could deter the chief justice.* In 1824, for example, Marshall wrote the Court's...

...engulfing insidiously ihe special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them. There is no danger I apprehend so much as the consolidation of our government...distinction between republicans and the pseudorepublicans hut real federalists. Where the press is free and every man able lo read, all is safe. The. only security...

...was led by Jefferson, and was based on decisions of the court upholding acts of Congress. He said: "There is no danger that I apprehend so much as the...consolidation of our government by the noiseless and therefore alarming instrumentality of the Supreme Court. This is the form in which federalism now arrays itself,...

...pen without recurring to one of the subjects of my former letter; for, In truth, there is no danger I apprehend so much as the consolidation of our Government by the noiseless, and therefore unalarmlng, Instrumentality of the Supreme Court. This Is the form in which Federalism now arrays itself."...