| Michael J. Glennon - Law - 1990 - 382 pages
...explained the benefit of our system of divided power better than Justice Louis Brandéis: The doctrine of separation of powers was adopted by the Convention...inevitable friction incident to the distribution of governmental powers among three departments, to save the people from autocracy.217 Arbitrary exercise... | |
| Harold Hongju Koh - Political Science - 1990 - 356 pages
...willingly sacrificed speed, secrecy, and efficiency. But as Justice Brandeis explained, "[t]he doctrine of separation of powers was adopted by the Convention...efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power."56 By knowingly trading losses in efficiency, the Framers opted for gains in interbranch consultation,... | |
| Edward J. Erler - Constitutional history - 1991 - 144 pages
...States impotent to cope with complex problems."4 In 1926, Justice Louis Brandeis could still remark that "[t]he doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted...departments, to save the people from autocracy."" At the very time Brandeis wrote these lines, however, powerful forces of the Progressive movement had... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Cold War - 1991 - 342 pages
...willingly sacrificed speed, secrecy, and efficiency. But as Justice Brandeis explained, "[t]he doctrine of separation of powers was adopted by the Convention...efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power."56 By knowingly trading losses in efficiency, the Framers opted for gains in interbranch consultation,... | |
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