"It
has long, however, been my opinion and I have never
shrunk from its expression that the germ of
dissolution of our federal government is in the
constitution of the federal judiciary -- working
like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little
today and a little tomorrow and advancing the
noiseless step like a thief over the field of
jurisprudence until all shall be usurped." Thomas Jefferson (Predicting Judicial Activism)
