...p. 504. 7 Compare Mr. Justice Brandeis, dissenting, in Myers v. United States, 272 US 52 (1926), at 293: "The doctrine of the separation of powers was...three departments, to save the people from autocracy." But consider, for example, F75, p. 507, where Hamilton presents an argument against admitting the House...

...constitutionalism. A century and a half after the country's founding, Justice Louis Brandeis was to write, "The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted...1787 not to promote efficiency but to preclude the arbitrary exercise of power — not to avoid friction but by means of the inevitable friction incident...

...Commentaries on the Laws of England, 9th ed., book 1, chapter 2, p. 146 (1783, reprinted 1978). 789 The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted...three departments, to save the people from autocracy. Justice LOUIS D. BRANDEIS, dissenting, Myers v. United States, 272 US 293 (1926). 790 The accumulation...

...of powers with its checks and balances dictates that a court proceed to the merits of a controversy. "The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted...three departments, to save the people from autocracy." Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer, 343 US 579, 613-614, 72 S.Ct. 863, 898, 96 L.Ed. 1153 (1952)...

...executive to act unilaterally against civil servants he found unacceptable, Brandeis declared that "the doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted...efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power" (Myers v. United States, 1927). "The purpose," he continued, "was not to avoid friction, but, by means...

...institutions with shared and competing responsibilities," The purpose, as Justice Louis Brandeis later noted, was "not to avoid friction, but, by means of the inevitable...incident to the distribution of the governmental powers , , , to save the people from autocracy,"12 From the beginning, when George Washington refused in 1795...

...constitutional restrictions. To emphasize his point, Frankfurter quoted the words of Justice Brandeis: The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1 787, not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was,...

...(1926), Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that "the doctrine of the separation of powers [emphasis added] was adopted by the Convention of 1787, not to promote...three departments, to save the people from autocracy." 31 The division of political power—horizontally among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches;...

...free government." Moreover, he pointed out, the principle of separation of powers had been adopted "not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise...three departments, to save the people from autocracy." 51 The Myers decision stirred up a storm. For the first time since the Insular Cases" a quarter of...

...who believe that the eighteenth-century Constitution should be preserved. In Justice Brandeis's view, "the doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted...but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power." 42 Brandeis's famous dictum continues to keep alive, in contemporary legal scholarship, the misleading...