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Article III, Section 2; Uphold America's Judeo-Christian heritage.(OPED)
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The Washington Times
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October 7, 2003
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Byline: William E. Dannemeyer, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Thomas Jefferson is generally recognized by most historians as the principle author of the Declaration of Independence. Our Founding Fathers created a federal system of three branches, Executive, Legislative and Judicial.
On Aug. 18, 1821, Jefferson wrote to Charles Hammond and expressed his fear that, of the three branches of government which were created, the one he feared the most was the federal judiciary in these words:
"The federal judiciary is ...working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief over the field of ...