Olivia conveniently leaves out (and distorts) a few details in her pseudo historical narrative:
1: Neither Adams nor Jefferson was a delegate at the constitutional convention; they did not play an active role in framing the U.S. constitution.

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_founding_fathers.html

2: For the rest of their lives Jefferson and Adams vehemently disagreed about the legal and ethical implications of President Adams’ lame duck appointments. Jefferson felt that Adams’ 1801 judiciary act was a cynical ploy to entrench Federalist operatives on the court, thus these appointees would come to be known as the midnight judges.

http://www.american-historama.org/1790-1800-new-nation/1801-judiciary-act-midnight-judges.htm

This type of machination would be repeated136 years later with Roosevelt’s ill-fated court packing scheme. Fortunately members of the President’s own party recognized the danger of turning a coequal branch into a panel of robed sycophants.