• ObliviousEnlightenment@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Jefferson, when the Court granted itself the power of judicial review (which, yes, they just gave themselves because they were the authority and nothing said they couldn’t) warned us about despotism from the courts. For as many flaws as that man had, he was dead-on about that

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      9 months ago

      His flaws were as a person rather than as a social and political thinker. Which leads to why he’s such a hot button figure.