More from Jefferson on Supreme Court

"Contrary to all correct example, [the Federal judiciary] are in the habit of going out of the question before them, to throw an anchor ahead and grapple further hold for future advances of power. They are then in fact the corps of sappers and miners, steadily working to undermine the independent rights of the States and to consolidate all power in the hands of that government in which they have so important a freehold estate." --Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821

Jefferson on the Supreme Court

"It has long been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its
expression,... that the germ of dissolution of our Federal Government is in
the constitution of the Federal Judiciary--an irresponsible body (for
impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow), working like gravity by night and by
day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its
noiseless step like a thief over the field of jurisdiction until all shall
be usurped from the States and the government be consolidated into one. To
this I am opposed." --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Hammond, 1821.

The Next Right Thing

Many years ago a wise grandfather told me "Lonnie, you want to try and fix the whole world. God doesn't call you to do anything but work to ensure your own backyard is in order." His point being that if God needs us for bigger things he'll let us know. In the meantime we just need to do the next right thing. 

I was reminded of this principle in my morning quiet time today when I read "Sovereign Lord, make clear to me Your agenda for my world. I want to cooperate with You on Your plan, not waste efforts on my plan."