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Hamilton’s Federalist 78 forecast neutral rulings from lifetime judges insulated from political pressures. He was naive in retrospect: “The judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power; that it can never attack with success either of the other two;” “The general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter;”

This is a nice find. The Federalist has the occasional incomprehensible leap like this on the part of Hamilton. Another is how he defends the way the Treaty Power is set up in Article II, Section 2, clause2 discussed here. Jefferson and Patrick Henry had a cow about these, but Hamilton won the day. Why?

I think these were demands upon the part of our creditors at the time amd Hamilton was the money guy. The United States was broke after the Revolutionary War and needed money for a navy. Boats don't come cheap. I suspect that because the creditors had demands provisions this crucial were rarely discussed at length during the Federal Convention debates. It is a bitch to read a document for what is NOT there, but this murky business about judges may be such a case. The good news there is that now that it has been rendered electronic such searches can be made relatively quickly. The evidence of absence would make an interesting legal argument. After all, corrupt judges had ruined Israel and the vast preponderance of the Founders knew that well.