| Show A COUT COURT OF GREAT POWER THE supreme court of the united states can reader null and void a law of congress and can compel even the chief magistrate to desist from performing any given act or function tf if eight of its fifteen members see lit fit to do so there is not another court on earth having so great power po no other nation makes its judiciary Indicia rythus thus superior to all other departments of its government there ai always ways is danger to the masses when great powers over their liberties reposes in the hands bands of one man or a small number of men and the danger Is greater when theman thelman or men holding the power are not directly chosen b by the people and are beyond the reach of any remedy at tie command of the citizens how to obviate dials danger has been a problem ever since governments began to be established among mankind that this danger is far from being wholly visionary in this country has had bad several exemplifications amon among ol 01 them being the occasion when one of the vital powers of the government was on the verge of being destroyed by the action of that court upon the subject ot of issuing paper money that would be legal tender a thing necessary to be done in order to promote the war of the rebellion the vast power and unlimited authority tho rity in some directions of the supreme court of the tha united states are being discussed by the abe press of the country in connection with speculations as to whom the president will appoint a member of ft vice justice woods recently deceased |
