IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Against All Enemies

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Against All Enemies: "U.S. government officials swear to 'support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.'

The enemies of our form of government, going back even to before the ratification of the Constitution, have never been limited to invading armies.

Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 22 warned that 'one of the weak sides of republics, among their numerous advantages, is that they afford too easy an inlet to foreign corruption.'

His solution was that treaties with foreign powers must submit 'to one supreme tribunal.' (Hamilton's own emphasis in the text.)

'Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation,' Hamilton noted.

Obviously, Hamilton did not envision that Supreme Court being located in Holland or Switzerland. It was to be an American court administering laws passed by the duly-elected representatives of the American people."