[LAW-LIB:58152] Re: help with Jefferson quote

From: David Matchen (dmatchen@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 10 2009 - 10:58:48 PST

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    >From James F. Simon, *What Kind of Nation* (2003), at 148:

    "The Federalists 'have retreated into the judiciary as a stronghold,'
    Jefferson complained, "the tenure of which renders it difficult to dislodge
    them.'" 

    -- 
David E. Matchen, Jr., J.D., M.L.I.S.
Circulation/Reference Librarian
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    On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Jennifer Gross <jgross@unlv.nevada.edu>wrote:

    >  I am looking for a quote by Thomas Jefferson.   He's talking about the
> packing of the courts by the Federalists. The phrase he uses is something
> like the Federalists have retreated into the judiciary and that he intends
> to hunt them there.
>
> I've already searched google books,  Westlaw, Lexis (law review databases)
> and every quote book that we own.   (Oxford Dictionary of Amercian Legal
> Quotations, Dictionary of Legal Quotations, 2000 Famous Legal Quotations,
> and Quote it Completely) and can't find anything.  Any leads are
> appreciated.
>
> Jennifer Gross
> Reference Librarian
> Wiener-Rogers Law Library
> University of Nevada, Las Vegas
>
> 702-895-2408
> fax 702-895-2410
>
> jgross@unlv.nevada.edu
>
>

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