What Alexander Hamilton Got Wrong About the ‘Least Dangerous Branch’

What Alexander Hamilton Got Wrong About the ‘Least Dangerous Branch’

If you want to understand how the Supreme Court became the sinkhole of ideological extremism and corruption it is today under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts, you have to go back to the beginning and examine the institution’s own origin story. A good place to start is with the debates on ratification of the Constitution that played out in 1787 and 1788 in what are now known as the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers, in which the …