You said — THOMAS JEFFERSON: “To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”
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That’s why we have the ability to enact legislation and also to amend the Constitution. The Supreme Court cannot override an Amendment to the Constitution. The *mechanism* — is there...
I think they’re most dangerous when they don’t try to make outright changes to the constitution. Much like the interstate popular vote compact being entered into by the individual states. In the case of the courts the 1895 Sparf VS US case, the supreme court ruled that jurors don’t need to know their rights and we’ve had dumb juries ever since.