It&#x27;s not clear that they intended judicial review at all.<p>Keep in mind that the framers didn&#x27;t assume permanent political parties, without which Congress and the president would be better able to check each other.  And the system lacked any real federal law enforcement, leaving state nullification of federal law a practical possibility even if legally controversial.<p>Judicial review is more important for us than it was for them because we lack so many of those counterweights.  But a powerful judiciary introduces its own set of problems.