Sunday, August 3, 2025

(Part 8) Thomas Jefferson specifically referenced this article (and others that will be provided) as it closely reflected his views on judicial overreach.

He and his Republican followers believed that Leftist Chief Justice John Marshall and the Federalist dominated Supreme Court went against the will of the majority of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 & against the State ratifying Convention compromises of 1788. That they also went against the vast majority of the people of the United States with the Cohens vs. Virginia decision (1821.) "No one measure has made so alarming a breach in our political institutions..."

Jefferson perfectly stated that the justices, "squeezed their own meaning out of the text... using the slipperiness of the eels of law." That they invented constructions in favor of their own prejudices and love of power.

This decision (and several others) started the "extrajudicial" consolidation of power into the hands of the Federal government instead of leaving it where it belongs; decentralized with the people of each individual sovereign State. "It is, therefore, with the deepest concern that the advocates of the rights of the States have seen this odious and exploded doctrine revived to serve as a foundation for yet more novel and extravagant pretensions." (Richmond Enquirer, Volume 18, Number 13, 22 June 1821)

This article prophetically predicted the messes that would ensue when the agreed upon strict fundamental construction of the Constitution is violated!

"Whether it is openly violated, or secretly undermined by the insidious arts of construction-- political death is ultimately the consequence. [Loose] Construction is the vampyre which sucks out the life-blood of the Constitution!"

This article also continues to prove that the War to Prevent Southern Independence was fundamentally about much more than just the status of slaves. The true causa causans was the incremental extension of the powers of the Federal government beyond that which was originally intended. Those powers not specifically delegated were reserved!

If these terminally wrongful constructions were to be followed, "a violent collision may ensue... ultimately terminating in civil war."

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(Referenced: Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 12 June 1823)








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