[Jacquerie]

Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 17 assured readers that the Judicial branch would be the weakest of the three branches.

What is the quote from #17?

[jjotto]

Doh!

I’m a researcher and I’ve been flubbing numbers lately. Gonna have to recheck all the calculations from the last couple weeks!

Make that Federalist #78.

http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa78.htm

...The judiciary, on the contrary, 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. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments...