Democratic (constitutionalist) Senator John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, in a letter to Virgil Maxcy, Solicitor of the united States Treasury describes the concept of judicial review as contrary to the concept of good government:
The question is in truth between the people & the Supreme Court. We contend, that the great conservative principle of our system is in the people of States, as parties to the Constitutional compact, and our opponents that is in the Supreme Court.
[added 1/4/2025]
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References:
Clyde N. Wilson, “Secession: The Last, Best Bulwark of Our Liberties,” Secession, State and Liberty, David Gordon, ed., (New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Transaction, 1998), 92.
John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court – Google Books
www.google.com/books/edition/John_Marshall_and_the_Heroic_Age_of_the/HqHCCcMFNcMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22The+question+is+in+truth+between%22++john+c+calhoun&pg=PA353&printsec=frontcover
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