...review the constitutionality of statutes was made in Federalist Paper no. 78, where it was stated: By a limited Constitution, I understand one which...such, for instance, as that it shall pass no bills of attainder, no ex-post-facto laws, and the like. Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice...

...Constitution, offered justification for an independent judiciary in the 78th paper of The Federalist. He wrote, "The complete independence of the courts of justice...is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution." Hamilton claimed that only an independent judicial branch of government would be able to impartially...

...as well as legislative aggrandizement. 10 This comes from the man who insisted in Federalist 78 that "the complete independence of the courts of justice...is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution." 11 Public law scholars—and especially legal scholars—remain fixated on Federalist 78, insisting...

...constitution; and in a great measure as the citadel of the public justice and the public security. ing any part of what is common, and removing it out...consent of all the commoners. Thus the grass my ho attainder, no ex post facto laws, and the like. Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice...

...requiring "[t]he complete independence of the courts of justice." A limited constitution is defined as "one which contains certain specified exceptions to...such, for instance, as that it shall pass no bills of attainder, no ex-post-facto laws, and the like" (Federalist 78, par. 8; Hamilton's emphasis). Hamilton...

...wrote in Federalist No. 78, was in fact an indispensable safeguard for the preservation of freedom: The complete independence of the courts of justice...such, for instance, as that it shall pass no bills of attainder, no ex post facto laws, and the like. Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice...

...importance of an independem judiciary. Alexander Hamilton, in the "Federalist No. 78," obseryed that "the complete independence of the courts of justice...is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution"; and James Madison, often called the Father of the Constitution, described an independent judiciary...