"There is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers. And it proves, in the last place, that as liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have every thing to fear from its union with either of the other departments;" Alexander Hamilton , Federalist No. 78 Alexander Hamilton also said the judiciary was the weakest of all departments in the same article, yet still wrote the above quote. He foresaw the current stat...