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THE SUPREME COURT

in them, I can conceive no reason for continuing to send the Supreme Court Judges to preside in them, of equal weight with the objections which oppose that measure."[1]

  1. King, I, letter of Jay to King, Dec 22, 1798. Other Federalists continued to urge the necessity of amendment of the judicial system, which, they said, "is defective throughout and wholly inadequate to its object." New York Daily Advertiser, Feb. 14, 1793. All the Judges united in an address to the President, Feb. 17, 1794, calling his attention again to defects in the Judiciary system. Amer. State Papers, Misc., I, 77.