"I consider [trial by jury] as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution" -- Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine, 1789. ME 7:408, Papers 15:269.

I have to believe that all of those who lust for this offoce have been paying close attetion to the events surrounding the increase of the President's powers postulate that power for their own uses.