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" The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787, not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was, not to avoid friction, but, by means of the inevitable friction incident to the... "
United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court - Page 354
by United States. Supreme Court - 1947
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 343

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1952 - 1030 pages
...inefficient. But as Mr. Justice Brandeis stated in his dissent in Myers v. United States, 272 US 52, 293: "The doctrine of the separation of powers was...three departments, to save the people from autocracy." DOUGLAS, J., concurring. 343 US We therefore cannot decide this case by determining which branch of...
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Power of the President to Remove Federal Officers: Opinions and Dissenting ...

United States. Supreme Court - 1926 - 324 pages
...accompanied the issuance of commissions to Governor Howard in 1683 and to Governor Dunmorc in 1771. the Convention of 1787 not to promote efficiency but...three departments, to save the people from autocracy. In order to prevent arbitrary Executive action, the Constitution provided in terms that presidential...
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Harvard Law Review, Volume 40

1927 - 1234 pages
...said committee," 8 he touched upon one of the most contentious is6 THE FEDERALIST (1831 ed.) No. 47. " The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted...three departments, to save the people from autocracy." Brandeis, J., dissenting in Myers v. United States, 47 Sup. Ct. 21, 85 (US 1926). 8 See Frankfurter...
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Harvard Law Review, Volume 40

1927 - 1228 pages
...said committee," 8 he touched upon one of the most contentious is0 THE FEDERALIST (1831 ed.) No. 47. " The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted...three departments, to save the people from autocracy." Brandeis, J., dissenting in Myers v. United States, 47 Sup. Ct. 21, 85 (US 1926). 0 See Frankfurter...
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The Reference Shelf, Volume 4, Issue 9

Edith M. Phelps - 1927 - 206 pages
...terribly wasteful. The checks and balances upon which democracy relies for its preservation were designed "not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power." * The instinct of all power is to become arbitrary and oppressive. Under our system the instrumentalities...
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Confirmation of Members of Federal Farm Loan Board, Hearings Before ..., 701 ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Banking and Currency Committee - 1928 - 140 pages
...commissions. It had been denied in the Thirteen States before the framing of the Federal Constitution. The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted...governmental powers among three departments to save the psople from autocracy. In order to prevent arbitrary executive action, the Constinition provided in...
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Reorganization of the Federal Judiciary: Extract from Hearings Before the ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1937 - 1038 pages
...answered most clearly in words of Mr. Justice Brandeis, who is certainly no Tory. He wrote some years ago: "The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted...the distribution of the governmental powers among the three departments, to save the people from autocracy." (Myers v. United States, 272, US 52, at...
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Reorganization of the Federal Judiciary: Extract from Hearings Before the ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1937 - 1042 pages
...answered most clearly in words of Mr. Justice Brandeis, who is certainly no Tory. He wrote some years ago: "The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787, not to promoh efficiency, but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was not to avoid friction,...
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Third Term for President of the United States: Hearings Before a ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1940 - 366 pages
...should be "a government of laws and not of men." The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted at the Convention of 1787 not to promote efficiency but...three departments, to save the people from autocracy. It is obvious further that the undue growth in power of any one of these departments at the expense...
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Labor Relations: Feb. 8-10

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1949 - 720 pages
...established by our Constitution. The designers of that system distributed authority among the three branches "not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power." Mr. Justice Brandeis, dissenting in Myers v. United States, 272 US 52, 293. Their concern for individual...
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