Quotation of the Day…

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… is, on this Constitution Day, from John Adams’s April 1776 “Thoughts on Government”:

The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people and every blessing of society, depends so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice, that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.