| James W. Ely - 1997 - 464 páginas
...legislature or executive has infringed or denied liberty. As Justice Brandeis has explained: "The doctrine of separation of powers was adopted by the Convention...preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was ... to save the people from autocracy."10 Under the separation of powers system, no branch may oppress... | |
| Jessica Korn - 1998 - 196 páginas
...who believe that the eighteenth-century Constitution should be preserved. In Justice Brandeis's view, "the doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted...efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power."42 Brandeis's famous dictum continues to keep alive, in contemporary legal scholarship, the... | |
| Andr s Saj¢ - 1999 - 312 páginas
...however, never sought to avoid conflict between and among the branches of government: The doctrine of separation of powers was adopted by the Convention...powers among three departments, to save the people from autocracy.8 Undoubtedly, accepting friction and conflict has a shrieking resonance in the ears of those... | |
| Christopher A. Anzalone - 2000 - 422 páginas
...good, Statutory intent Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting Myers v. United States, 272 US 52, 293 (1926) The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted...three departments, to save the people from autocracy. Keywords: Arbitrary power, Autocracy, Checks and balances. Governmental powers, Separation of powers... | |
| David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 páginas
...stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees. Schaefer v. United States, 251 US 495, 1920. 2 The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted...three departments, to save the people from autocracy. Myers v. United States, 272 US 293, 1926. BRAUDEL; FERNAND 27 3 Those who won our independence believed.... | |
| Edward A. Purcell - 2000 - 446 páginas
...men,' " he declared in 1926. "The doctrine of separation of powers was adopted by the Convention in 1787, not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power." '" Brandéis repudiated the general common law because he was both a Progressive who believed passionately... | |
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