Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Quote of the Day: 27 July 2022 #QotD

“It can be of no weight to say, that the courts on the pretense of a repugnancy, may substitute their own pleasure to the constitutional intentions of the legislature.” -Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist No. 78
“It can be of no weight to say, that the courts on the pretense of a repugnancy, may substitute their own pleasure to the constitutional intentions of the legislature.” -Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist No. 78
[There will be those who don't understand what this actually means, and will insist that recent Supreme Court rulings violate this principle. However, what they have actually done is to roll back former rulings that violated it, or rebuke lower courts that have done so.]

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