"[A]s the Courts are generally the last in making the decision, it results to them by refusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character. This makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended, and can never be proper." | by: | James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President |
Source: | OBSERVATIONS ON THE "DRAUGHT OF A CONSTITUTION FOR VIRGINIA," October 15, 1788
ref: The Papers of James Madison,
http://lf-oll.s3.amazonaws.com/titles/1937/Madison_1356-05_EBk_v6.0.pdf |
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