...of the laws. Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each...political rights of the Constitution ; because it will be last in a capacity to annoy or injure them. The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds...

...Federalist 78: Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each...least in a capacity to annoy or injure them . . . The judiciary . . . has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength...

...The original phrase came from Alexander Hamilton in THE FEDERALIST No. 78, at 522 (J. Cooke ed. 1961) ("the judiciary, from the nature of its functions,...will always be the least dangerous to the political lights of the constitution"), and was built into a theory of judicial restraint by the late Professor...

...and Stone 304-5; Ellsworth, Elliot II, 196. •14. Federal Farmer XV, 2.8.185. Publius contended that "the judiciary, from the nature of its functions,...dangerous to the political rights of the constitution. . . . [T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general...

...Hamilton explains: Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive that, in a government in which they are separated from each...rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in its capacity to annoy or injure them. The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword...

...judiciary, Hamilton assured his readers that the judicial branch "from the nature of its functions" would always be the "least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution." The courts should be viewed, he argued, as "the bulwarks of a limited constitution against legislative...

...nationalistic justification for judicial review in The Federalist No. 78 hinged on the premise that the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will...least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. . . . The judiciary . . . has no influence over either the sword or the purse, 63. "The Judicial power of the...

...Federalist, No. 78, would always be, from the nature of its functions, the branch of the federal government "least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution;...least in a capacity to annoy or injure them." The judges, he argued, would have no influence over either the sword or the purse of the nation. And the...

...of constitutional powers, I find little solace in Alexander Hamilton's assertion that the judiciary will always be "the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution." Rotes 1. From a statement of opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment by Roscoe Pound and Paul Freund....

...on the part of the other branches. In contrast, in number 78, we supposed that "the Judiciary . . . will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be the least in a capacity to annoy or injure them . . . [having) no influence over either the sword or...