7340. REPUBLICANISM (Partisan), The Judiciary and.—
The revolution of 1800 was as real a revolution in the principles
of our government as that of 1776 was in its
form; not effected, indeed, by the sword, as
that, but by the rational and peaceable instrument
of reform, the suffrage of the people.
The nation declared its will by dismissing
functionaries of one principle, and electing
those of another, in the two branches,
Executive and Legislative, submitted to their
election. Over the Judiciary department, the
Constitution had deprived them of their control.
That, therefore, has continued the reprobated
system, and although new matter has
been occasionally incorporated into the old,
yet the leaven of the old mass seems to assimilate
to itself the new, and after twenty
years' confirmation of the federal system by
the voice of the nation, declared through the
medium of elections, we find the Judiciary on
every occasion, still driving us into consolidation.—
To Spencer Roane. Washington ed. vii, 133.
Ford ed., x, 140.
(P.F.,,
18191819)gt;
See Centralization, Judiciary and Supreme Court.
