 | George Morgan - Presidents - 1921 - 506 pages
...Dickinson, December 19, 1801: "The Federalists have retired into the judiciary as a stronghold . . . and from that battery all the works of republicanism are to be beaten down and erased." But the Federalists were desperate. Were they perversely or patriotically desperate? Adams was both... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1922 - 716 pages
...Dickinson after the passage of the Judiciary Law of 1801, "have retired into the Judiciary as a stronghold. There the remains of Federalism are to be preserved...of republicanism are to be beaten down and erased." 1 Another motive at the back of the Federalist Judiciary Act of 1801 was the desire of the Federalists... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1922 - 720 pages
...Dickinson after the passage of the Judiciary Law of 1801, "have retired into the Judiciary as a stronghold. There the remains of Federalism are to be preserved...the works of republicanism are to be beaten down and erased."1 Another motive at the back of the Federalist Judiciary Act of 1 80 1 was the desire of the... | |
 | Willis Mason West - United States - 1922 - 840 pages
...the Judiciary as a stronghold, of impeachThere the remains of Federalism are to be preserved ments and fed from the treasury ; and from that battery...the works of Republicanism are to be beaten down and destroyed." But the principles of the Republicans with regard to the government forbade them to enlarge... | |
 | Charles Warren - Law - 1922 - 578 pages
...action was necessary, since "the Federalists have retired into the Judiciary as a stronghold . . . and from that battery all the works of republicanism are to be beaten down and erased." And Jefferson's views were echoed by William B. Giles, who wrote that the Federalists "saw their doom... | |
 | Anson Daniel Morse - Political parties - 1923 - 320 pages
...fairly the prevalent view: "They, the Federalists, have retired into the judiciary as a stronghold. There the remains of Federalism are to be preserved...the works of Republicanism are to be beaten down." l In fact, during the years under consideration, the distrust of the early Republicans toward the federal... | |
 | Richard Hofstadter - History - 1969 - 306 pages
...The Federalists, Jefferson wrote in December 1801, "have retired into the Judiciary as a stronghold. There the remains of Federalism are to be preserved...the works of Republicanism are to be beaten down and erased."39 It is easy to understand the Federalist revulsion over the war on the judiciary. Last-minute... | |
 | Archives - 1992 - 576 pages
...Jefferson wrote to a friend that "the Federalists have retired into the judiciary as a stronghold . . . and from that battery all the works of Republicanism are to be beaten down and erased." Thus when Jefferson heard in May 1803 of a charge that Justice Samuel Chase had given to a grand jury... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Biography & Autobiography - 1970 - 420 pages
...should that be again in danger. On their part, they have retired into the judiciary as a stronghold. There the remains of Federalism are to be preserved...fraudulent use of the Constitution, which has made judges irremovable, they have multiplied useless judges merely to strengthen their phalanx.23 A winters campaign... | |
 | Richard E. Ellis - Political questions and judicial power - 1971 - 390 pages
...Jefferson angrily wrote that the Federalists "have retired into the Judiciary as a stronghold . . . and from that battery all the works of Republicanism are to be beaten down and erased." 22 Jefferson's commitment to repeal of the Judiciary Act of 18o1 was now total. He occupied himself... | |
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On their part, they have retired into the judiciary as a stronghold. There the remains of federalism are to be preserved and fed from the treasury, and from that battery all the works of republicanism are to be beaten down and erased. 
