hamilton and the federalist 78, supreme court is supposed to follow precedence. and we re not supposed to have everything divide us this way. i think it was, as you say, a concern group of evangelicals that decided to make that did make abortion the issue. and a litmus test for being a conservative republican in america. all right. walter isaacson, kimberly atkins stohr and john heilemann, good to have you on this morning. still ahead on morning joe, steve kornacki joins us from the big board to break down last night s primary results out of ohio, and what they mean for the midterms later this year. but first, armed services committee member congressman jason crow is standing by. he joins us on the heels of his trip to ukraine with house speaker nancy pelosi. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back. oe. we ll be right back.
federalist 78 and what s described there as a system of precedent. so precedent is rooted right into the constitution itself and is dictated to pay heed and rules to precedent. beyond that, being a good judge means paying attention to the words that are written. the words of the constitution, the words of the statutes that are passed by congress. not doing what i want to do. not differing when the executive rewrites the laws passed by congress but respect for the rules passed by congress, respect for the words put into the constitution itself. that s part of being a good judge, that s part of being independent, that s part of precedent. i would say being a good judge there are human qualities in interaction.
no. [ yelling ]. we were talking about separation of powers. have you ever written any decisions where you used the 10th amendment? i m talking about division of powers between federal and states. most that come to the d.c. circuit are at the national level therefore involving between the executive, judicial branches. of course federalism is a critical part of our constitutional structure as well. the gene juenius of our system f federalist 39 described that we have both a national and federal government simultaneously. and the house of representatives really represents in some ways the national part, proportional
fill out the meaning of the constitution over time with practices, those can be relevant in how the court subsequently interprets certain provisions. we talk also about the national and federal governments. so the combination that we have, this odd of having a national government plus state governments and within the national government the house is proportional representation, the senate is state representation. that interesting compromise, which madison, by the way, was opposed to. that compromise at the convention. federalist 47, which senator klobuchar mentioned yesterday, the accumulation of all power in one body is the very definition of tyranny. i start my separation of powers class every year with that exact quote that you read yesterday, senator klobuchar. that s a very important 51, if men were angels, we don t