The “eminent tribunal”.
Lincoln warned us about this in his First Innaugural when he said:
“............if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.”
I maintain that we have ceased to be our own rulers