18 “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; … “Supreme Law of the Land” conveys the idea that this is one land, one country, not a league of separate countries. Jefferson said, ‘We the people’ wrote the constitution, and only ‘we the people’ – that is, the legislature – had the right to interpret it. (Cited in Beveridge, Life of John Marshall, 3: 605–606). Kentucky Republican Jefferson’s argument John to Breckenridge, the Senate expanding commended that constitution had ‘intended a separation of the power vested in the three great departments, giving to each exclusive authority on the subjects committed to each���. The Legislature had the exclusive right to interpret the constitution as regards the law-making process and the Judges were bound to execute the laws they made. Let gentlemen consider well before they insist on a power in the judiciary which places the