Original Argument: The Lost Chapters – translated by Joshua Charles
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The Original Argument – so this week we brought you The Lost Chapters. Today's is The Federalist No. 22 – Other Defects of the Present Confederation.
Here's a sample:
I have yet to mention the defect which tops off all of the defects of the Confederacy: the lack of a judiciary power. Laws are worthless words on paper without courts to interpret and define their true meaning and function. If the treaties of the United States are to have any force at all, they must be considered part of the law of the land. Their true significance, as far as individuals are concerned, must, like all other laws, be determined by the judiciary. To make sure that these determinations remain uniform, there ought to be a body which has the last word on all of them, a SUPREME COURT, which should be given the same degree of authority as that which negotiates the treaties in the first place. Both of these ingredients are absolutely necessary. If each state has its own supreme court, a court which would have the last word for that individual state, then there may be as many legal determinations as there are courts. There is an infinite amount of diverse opinions among men, as we see when not only different courts, but judges on even the same courts disagree with each other. To avoid the confusion that would come from multiple courts making contradictory decisions on multiple laws, all nations have found it necessary to establish one Supreme Court that is above all the others and which has the final say on all judicial determinations, so that the rules of civil justice remain uniform throughout the land.
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