Alexander Hamilton's Report Of 1800 On The Virginia Resolution

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Carol I am in agreement with you concerning this matter. The United States has allowed nine-black robed executioners to become the rulers by fiat. According to Madison in his Report of 1800 on the Virginia Resolution, the role of the SCOTUS is to judge whether the other two branches are acting constitutionally. The failure today is not with the constitution, it is with the reaction of the states to the unconstitutional actions of the high court. SCOTUS is a far cry from Alexander Hamilton’s claim in The Federalist #78 that the judiciary “will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because, the judiciary lacked the powers of the purse and of the sword, it had neither force nor will, but merely judgment.

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