1/n Anti-federalist and Constitutional Convention delegate Robert Yates, writing as Brutus in the Anti-Federalist Papers, warned that the judiciary would become the most dangerous branch of gov't because it was beyond the control of “both the people and the legislature.” https://twitter.com/Chicago1Ray/status/1273702114804498432

2/n He warned that in place of constitutional grounds for rulings they would creat their own by manipulating vague clauses and interpreting the Constitution according to its "spirit" instead of its words.

3/n Being the first court in history without a mechanism to “control their adjudications” and “correct their errors," these erroneous rulings would become precedents that, in a “silent and imperceptible manner,” would move us away from the Constitution and allow them to...

4/n ...reshape the power and scope of the federal gov't regardless of what the Constitution said because they would have remade the Constitution's words with their own interpretations. I think Yates' predictions were dead on target.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3329791?seq=1

5/n https://fee.org/articles/the-anti-federalists-warned-that-the-judicial-branch-would-imperil-liberty/