 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1952 - 1030 pages
...in Myers v. United States, 272 US 52, 293: "The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787, not to promote efficiency...three departments, to save the people from autocracy." DOUGLAS, J., concurring. 343 US We therefore cannot decide this case by determining which branch of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Executive power - 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1927 - 1228 pages
...contentious is0 THE FEDERALIST (1831 ed.) No. 47. " The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of .1787 not to promote efficiency...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1927 - 1234 pages
...contentious is6 THE FEDERALIST (1831 ed.) No. 47. " The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787 not to promote efficiency but...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... | |
 | Edith M. Phelps - Debates and debating - 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Banking and Currency Committee - 1928 - 140 pages
...before the framing of the Federal Constitution. The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the convention of 1787, not to promote efficiency...governmental powers among three departments to save the psople from autocracy. In order to prevent arbitrary executive action, the Constinition provided in... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Courts - 1937 - 1042 pages
...before the Supreme Court. It is as follows : The doctrine of the separntion of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787, not to promote efficiency...but. by means of the inevitable friction incident to distribution of the governmental powers among three departments, to save the people from autocracy.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1947 - 978 pages
...v. United States, 272 US 52, 240, at 293: "The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787, not to promote efficiency...three departments, to save the people from autocracy." And see Mr. Chief Justice Taft, in Ex parte Grossman, 267 US 87, 119-22. 5 The State constitutions... | |
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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... 
