Comments on: Thomas Jefferson https://freedomsrisingsun.com/thomas-jefferson/ Sun, 23 Apr 2023 07:30:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: Joy Metcalf https://freedomsrisingsun.com/thomas-jefferson/#comment-8 Fri, 05 Feb 2021 23:13:32 +0000 https://freedomsrisingsun.brmecham.com/?p=118#comment-8 “Chief Justice Marshall, who participated in the Virginia ratification convention, recognized, in speaking to that body, that if a word was understood in a particular way when the Constitution was framed, the constitutional convention ‘must have used it in that sense.’ ”

And within a very short time, as Chief Justice of the United States, he proceeded to turn the Constitution on its head starting with Marbury v Madison. Today we are reaping his legacy with judges making law from the bench. It’s no wonder that Jefferson and he were at such odds.

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