I disagree with Hamilton’s description of the judiciary being the “least dangerous” and “weakest” branch. Although the courts themselves may not have the reach that the executive and legislative branches do, it still has its own place of significance by influencing the course of American history. Through the system of checks and balances, the judiciary has the power to overrule state legislators, congress, and even the president, with the authority to strike down laws. The courts have displayed their power of reach several times in the form of judgments. Such as, when it struck down a law that would protect slavery in the Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857, or when the courts thrust America into a time where segregation was to be an anomaly, with
