 | Richard Hofstadter - History - 1969 - 306 pages
...The Federalists, Jefferson wrote in December 1801, "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."39 It is easy to understand the Federalist revulsion over the war on the judiciary. Last-minute... | |
 | Archives - 1992 - 576 pages
...Jefferson wrote to a friend 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." Thus when Jefferson heard in May 1803 of a charge that Justice Samuel Chase had given to a grand jury... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Biography & Autobiography - 1970 - 420 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.23 A winters campaign... | |
 | dumas malone - 1970
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 | Richard E. Ellis - Political questions and judicial power - 1971 - 390 pages
...Jefferson angrily wrote 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." 22 Jefferson's commitment to repeal of the Judiciary Act of 18o1 was now total. He occupied himself... | |
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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. 
