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this country. It is this. Is it competent to a President of the United States to question the rectitude of a decision of the Supreme Court? -- It is the settled axiom of republican governments that the three great departments of political power, the legislative, the executive, and the judicial, shall be kept separate and distinct, and be wielded by different hands, each being separately responsible for its conduct, in its own peculiar sphere. It has been universally deemed essential to the liberty and safety of the people that this division of power should be strictly maintained. The very definition of a despotism is the union of all these powers in the same hand. Hence it has been the labour of the Constitution of the United States to keep them apart. Thus the first article of that instrument declares that "all legislative powers herein granted, shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate & house of Representatives": The second article, that "the Executive oiwer shall be vested in a President of the United States," and it is thereby made his duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed": the third article that "the judicial power shall be vested in one Supreme Court and in such inferior courts as Congress shall, from time to time, ordain & establish"; and the decision of the Supreme Court is made final. Now the legislative power is employed in making and repealing laws;