You Get What You Pay For
Will, George F., Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
WASHINGTON -- On New Year's Day, Chief Justice John Roberts, pursuant to his duty to report annually on the condition of the federal judiciary, issued a short and persuasive plea. It was lost in the cacophony of political news.
Besides, why worry about the judiciary? We have Alexander Hamilton's assurances, from Federalist 78, that the judiciary is "the least dangerous" branch of government. Having "neither force nor will, but merely judgment," it "has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever."
Few passages from the Federalist seem as …
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Article title: You Get What You Pay For.
Contributors: Will, George F. - Author.
Newspaper title: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Publication date: March 23, 2008.
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