Michael Tanner suggests some good questions for the Republican presidential debate. But I think he goes astray in writing that “the judiciary was intended to be, as James Madison put it, ‘the bulwark of our liberties.’” I am open to correction, but I don’t think Madison said that. I think the Madison quote Tanner has in mind is the one I discuss here, which expresses a less grand conception of the judicial role. (Or he may have been thinking of a Hamilton quote.)