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— Thomas Jefferson"It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation."
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The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them.
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