"...I feel an urgency to note what I deem an error in it, the more requiring notice as your opinion is strengthened by that of many others. you seem in pages 84. & 148. to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions: a very dangerous doctrine indeed and one which would place us under the despotism of an Oligarchy." -Thomas Jefferson, 28 September 1820 https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-1540