Here’s
what Thomas Jefferson had to say on the issue in a letter to William Charles Jarvis (28 September 1820).
You
seem … to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional
questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under
the despotism of an oligarchy.
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. Their maxim is “boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem”
[it is the part of a good judge to enlarge his jurisdiction],
and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not
responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control.
The
Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever
hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would
become despots.
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Comments
The US Constitution and its Amendments and the
Bill of Rights (as written) are the “law of the land”. The Supreme Court gives opinions the Congress
should consider in correcting US law.
The Congress has all the power over laws. Case law is not the “law of the land”. If case law veers off course, the Congress is
responsible for correcting it.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party
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