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Tara RossOn this day in 1823, Thomas Jefferson writes a letter about the judiciary. "At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government," he wrote. "Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous."What did he think was at fault? "[T]he insufficiency of the means provided for their removal," Jefferson concluded, "gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance."Yikes. Are we there yet? A little food for thought for your morning.#TDIH #OTD #History #USHistory #liberty #freedom #ShareTheHistory