Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Judicial Review
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The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.
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The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
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[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.
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To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
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Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.
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