 | William Quirk, R. Randall Bridwell - Law - 1995 - 162 pages
...Jefferson wrote to John Dickinson on December 19, 1801, "have retired into the judiciary as a stronghold. There the remains of federalism are to be preserved,...the treasury and from that battery all the works of republicans are to be beaten down and erased." Jefferson's First Inaugural Jefferson's First Inaugural... | |
 | Leonard W. Levy - Law - 462 pages
...new President to believe that "the Federalists have retired into the Judiciary as a stronghold . . . and from that battery all the works of republicanism are to be beaten down and erased." The new Circuit Court for the District of Columbia sought in vain to obtain the conviction of the editor... | |
 | Sheldon Goldman - Law - 1999 - 452 pages
...letter to James Madison, "The Federalists . . . have retired into the judiciary as a stronghold . . . and from that battery all the works of Republicanism are to be beaten down and erased."15 Kermit Hall, in his study of nineteenth-century lower-court judicial appointments, found... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 788 pages
...judiciary when Jefferson took office.* "The Federalists have retired into the judiciary as a stronghold, and from that battery all the works of republicanism are to be beaten down and erased," the new president told John Dickinson.62 Congressman William Branch Giles of Virginia, far more radical... | |
 | John V. Denson - Executive power - 2001 - 830 pages
...the judiciary body."42 The Federalists, he wrote, "have retired into the Judiciary as a stronghold. There the remains of federalism are to be preserved...the works of republicanism are to be beaten down and erased."43 He regarded the act as a moral nullity, since it was passed by a party that had already... | |
 | Tim Alan Garrison - Law - 2002 - 364 pages
...Republicans. In 1801, Jefferson wrote, "The Federalists have retired into the judiciary as a stronghold . . . and from that battery all the works of republicanism are to be beaten down and erased." Jefferson's party did what it could to besiege the Federalist fortress. Along with repealing the Judiciary... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 2003 - 276 pages
...should that be again in danger. On their part, they have retired into the judiciary as a stronghold. There the remains of Federalism are to be preserved...fraudulent use of the Constitution, which has made judges irremovable, they have multiplied useless judges merely to strengthen their phalanx. July 15,1802 (MCM... | |
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On their part, they have retired into the judiciary as a stronghold. There the remains of federalism are to be preserved and fed from the treasury, and from that battery all the works of republicanism are to be beaten down and erased. 
