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ByGeorge on Monday, August 03, 2009 7:49:12 PM
I
acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition
of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to
know upon what principle it can be contended that any one department
draws from the Constitution greater powers than another in marking out
the limits of the powers of the several departments.
James Madison, speech in the Congress of the United States, June 17, 1789