The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-09-20
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guilty, provide for the common de-
tense, promote the general welfare, and
secure the blessings of liberty to our
selves and our posterity, do ordain and
establish this constitution for the
United States of America"
The constitution, as it came from the
hands of the great men who framed it,
was not perfect-and as a consequence
the great charter Of American liberty
has been amended 10 times-or on an
average once in every seven years
and still it is not perfect. Another
amendment is imperatiyely demanded,
the emergency being greater than at
any time when any one of the 10 am
endments was proposed. The amend
ment now demanded is to curb and
forever crush the despotic power
usurped by the supreme court.
It will be observed that in tile pream-
bic to the constitution it is declared
that "we, the people" form a constitu-
ton to establish justice" The su-
preme court denies justice to the PEG
pie. 1t is said in the preamble, that
I'VE, the people" frame a constitution
to secure the BLESSINGS of liberty"
The supreme court has demonstrated
that it is the arch foe of liberty in the
United States and that it has so warped
mutilated and construed the constitu-
ton as to destroy the liberties it was
designed to protect and perpetuate.
Not only has the supreme court shown
itself to be the enemy of justice and of
the liberties of the people. but of a Re-
publican government which the con-
stitution created.
In this connection what could be
more in consonance with justice, in ar
raigning the supreme court before the
American people, than to introduce
the testimony Of Thomas Jefferson, the
patriot who wrote the declaration of
independence. In a letter to Thomas
Richie in 1920, Mr.. Jefferson wrote as
follows:
"The judiciary of the United States
is a subtle corps of sappers and miners
constantly underground to undermine
the foundation of our federal fabric"
In other words, it is a traitorous or
ganization-a body of anarchists-hav-
ing in view the overthrow of the re-
public. What so effectively could ao-
compIish the fell design, as to strike
down the liberties of the people, by
uSurping the right to imprison citizens
by disregarding the guarantees Of the
constitution?
Again in 1921 jefferson, writing to
Archibald Thucat, said;
"phe legislative and executive
branches may sometimes err, but cleo
tons will bring them to rights. The
judicial branch is the instrument
which, working like gravity without in
PERMISSION, is to press us at last into
one consolidated mass"
Here, again, we have Jeferson's tes-
timony that the supreme court was
standing and an alarming menace to
liberty. He predicted that it would de-
stroy the republic. He did not mince
matters. He sounded the alarm. Again
Mr.. Jefferson, writing to c. Hammond,
in 1921, said:
at has long, however, been my opin-
ion, and I have never shrunk from its
expression, that the germ of dissolu.
ton of cur federal government is in
the constitution of the federal judici-
airy; an irresponsible body, working
like gravity by night and by day, gain
ing little today, and a little tomor-
row, and advancing its noiseless steps
like thief over the field of jurisdic-
ton until it shall be usurped from the
states and the government Of all is
consolidated into one"
In this noiseless and thief-like march
of the supreme court, Jefferson's pre-
dictions are fulfilled. The jurisdiction
of the states has been cloYen down and
the supreme court has, at last. invaded
the rights and liberties of the people.
and denying them the right of trial
by jury, has Russianizsd America.
Again. wrote Mr.. Jefferson to Judge
johnson in 1888.
Il cannot lay down my pen without
recurring to one Of the subjects of my
last letter, for in truth there is no
danger I apprehend SO much as the
consolidation of our government by
the noiseless and therefore unalarming
instrumentality Of the supreme court.
Mr.. Jefferson never ceased issuing
his warnings. He saw in the supreme
court the greatest danger OF the
republic. He saw the republic exist in
name only, and in its place a con
soldated despotsim as cruel and IS
infamous as it exists in Russia. Again
Mr., jefferson writing to Mr.. Cory, in
1923 said:
AT the establishment of our consh-
tuition the judicial bodies were sup.
posed to be the most harmless mem
beFs Of our government. Experience,
however, soon showed in what way
they were TO become the most danger
Gus; that the insafiicieBey of the means
provided for their removal gave them
q freehold and responsibility in Of
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