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The idea of judicial review is thoroughly un-American. As Jefferson also pointed out, judges are not morally superior to anyone else, having with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Despite this, he wrote in his letter to Roane, while were meant to have three departments, co-ordinate and independent, that they might check and balance one another, judicial review has given to one of them alone, the right to prescribe rules for the government of the others; moreover, he continued, this power was given to the very branch that is unelected by, and independent of the nation. Jefferson then warned that this has made the Constitution a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please. And our country is being twisted along with it as patriots twist in the wind. Jeffersons position is just common sense. We cannot be a government of, by and for the people if 9 unelected Americans in black robes can act as an oligarchy and impose their biased vision of the law on 317 million Americans. That is not what the Founding Fathers intended. |
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