 | United States. Supreme Court - 1947 - 978 strani
...theme of Mr. Justice Brandeis in his dissenting opinion in Myers \. United States, 272 US 52, 240, at 293: "The doctrine of the separation of powers was...three departments, to save the people from autocracy." And see Mr. Chief Justice Taft, in Ex parte Grossman, 267 US 87, 119-22. 8 The State constitutions... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1949 - 720 strani
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations - 1950 - 262 strani
...of functions in government not to promote efficiency but to avoid abuse of power, and the purpose is not to avoid friction, but by means of the inevitable friction incident to the distribution of power, to save our people from autocracy; and, I think, that applies here. Of course, if we have a... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations - 1950 - 272 strani
...of functions in government not to promote efficiency but to avoid abuse of power, and the purpose is not to avoid friction, but by means of the inevitable friction incident to Of course, if we have a criminal court where the judge controls the grand jury and controls the prosecutor... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1951 - 362 strani
...*" Says Justice Brandeis, "The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Constitution of 1787, not to promote efficiency but to preclude...the distribution of the Governmental powers among the three departments, to save the people from autocracy." Brandeis, is quoted by C. Herman Pritchett... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Expenditures in the Executive Departments - 1952 - 332 strani
...has the outward appearance of efficiency — went on to quote from the dissent of Justice Brandeis in Myers v. United States (272 US 52, 293): The doctrine...three departments} to save the people from autocracy. While what is at stake here is of greater importance than the attainment of efficiency and economy,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Economic Report Joint Committee - 1952 - 1012 strani
...— 52 6 doctrine of the separation of powers, as Mr. Justice Brandéis once pointed out, was'adopted "not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise...inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the Government powers among three departments, to save the people from autocracy." Doubtless this reserve... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1952 - 1006 strani
...97308—52 6 doctrine of the separation of powers, as Mr. Justice Brandeis once pointed out, was adopted "not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise...inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the Government powers among three departments, to save the people from autocracy." Doubtless this reserve... | |
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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... 
