Wednesday, February 11, 2015

How prophetic the Founding Fathers were...

I'm told that the Patriot Post's daily emails always start with a quote from one of the Founders or Constitutional Framers.  The longer I live the more amazed I am at how insightful, prophetic and downright brilliant those 
men were.  A friend of mine forwarded me today's quote which was particularly good:

"[L]iberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments."* 
                                                                                  --Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 78, 1788


*Hamilton, A. (exact date unknown) Patriot Post, Founder's Quote Database, Retrieved 11 Febr., 2015 from http://patriotpost.us/quotesutf8=%E2%9C%93&q%5Bname_cont%5D=Alexander+Hamilton&q%5Bquote_category_id_eq%5D=&t=judiciary&commit=Search