John Adams was perhaps our first liberal president, and we're still paying the very very high price!

[EdwardBaiamonte]

John Adams was perhaps our first liberal president, and we're still paying the very very high price!!

As a high Federalist liberal he (along with Washington and Hamilton) believed in Platonic elite central govt ruling over the drooling masses. He appointed John Marshall to the Supreme Court who gave us Marbury v. Madison which established judicial review. Thus, 9 unelected fools for life in black robes can tell the other two branches of govt what laws they will accept. This is why all hell will break out if Judge Ginsburg dies. Everyone knows another conservative on the court will mean the entire govt of the United States is conservative. Obviously, the Supreme Court was intended to be just a co-equal branch of a limited central govt sharing power with the states.

 

[MarathonMike]

Excellent points!

 

[Bob Blaylock]

John Adams was perhaps our first liberal president, and we're still paying the very very high price!!

As a high Federalist liberal he (along with Washington and Hamilton) believed in Platonic elite central govt ruling over the drooling masses. He appointed John Marshall to the Supreme Court who gave us Marbury v. Madison which established judicial review. Thus, 9 unelected fools for life in black robes can tell the other two branches of govt what laws they will accept. This is why all hell will break out if Judge Ginsburg dies. Everyone knows another conservative on the court will mean the entire govt of the United States is conservative. Obviously, the Supreme Court was intended to be just a co-equal branch of a limited central govt sharing power with the states.

Exactly, as Thomas Jefferson warned in 1820…

“You seem to consider the federal 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. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have with others the same passions for the party, for power and the privilege of the corps. Their power is the more dangerous, as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.”​

 

[georgephillip]

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