The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration with me in the exercise of official duties. Certainly there is not a word in the Constitution which has given that power to them more than to the Executive or Legislative branches.
Thomas JeffersonEach generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.
Thomas JeffersonThe second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas Jefferson