1The Justices of the Supreme Court to George Washington, 9 August 1792, enclosing The Justices of the Supreme Court to … (Jay Papers)
Your official connection with the Legislature and the consideration that applications from us to them, cannot be made in any way so respectful to Government as through the President, induce us to request your attention to the enclosed representation and that you will be pleased to lay it before Congress. We really, Sir, find the burthens laid upon us so excessive that we cannot forbear...
2To Thomas Jefferson from the Justices of the Supreme Court, 20 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed Letter from us to the President being on the Subject of the one which by his Direction you did us the Honor to write on the 18th. Instant; we think it most proper and regular that it should pass to him thro’ your Hands; and for that purpose commit it to your Care. We have the Honor to be Sir your most obt. & hble Servts. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); in Jay’s hand, signed by Jay,...
3Enclosure: The Justices of the Supreme Court to George Washington, 20 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
We have taken into Consideration the Letter written to us by your Direction, on the 18th. Instant, by the Secretary of State. The Question “whether the public may with propriety be availed of the advice of the Judges, on the Questions alluded to?” appears to us to be of much Difficulty as well as Importance—as it affects the judicial Department, we feel a Reluctance to decide it, without the...
The Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, respectfully represent to the Congress of the United States, That their Representation communicated, last year, through the President, to both Houses of Congress, and to which they refer, comprehended few other remarks than such as were suggested by the personal difficulties to which the Judges were...
We have considered the previous Question stated in a Letter written to us by your Direction, by the Secretary of State, on the 18 th . of last month. The Lines of Separation drawn by the Constitution between the three Departments of Government—their being in certain Respects checks on each other—and our being Judges of a court in the last Resort—are Considerations which afford strong arguments...
We, the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, in Pursuance of the Letter which you did us the Honor to write on the 3rd of April last, take the Liberty of submitting to your Consideration the following Remarks on the “Act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States.” It would doubtless have been singular, if a System so new and untried, and...