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- W1966703021 abstract "rAWYERS are fond of quoting Justice Holmes's maxim that great cases like hard cases make bad law.' Watergate, with all its associated crimes and horrors, makes it imperative that we seek to prevent future presidential abuses of power. It would be monstrous if we permitted the obligation and the opportunity to do so to slip out of our hands. But we must beware lest popular revulsion leads us to the rearrangement and rebalancing of power among the three branches of government that, in Madison's phrase, would be adverse to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.2 Not since the Great Depression of the 1930s, which witnessed massive delegations of legislative power by Congress to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his abortive attempts to enlarge the Supreme Court, has there been so extensive and intensive a national debate over the meaning and implications of of as that generated by President Richard M. Nixon's defense of executive power and privilege in its name. If the complex issues involved are to be understood and rationally dealt with, it is necessary to give some consideration to the origins, historic uses and abuses of this constitutional doctrine and, that matter, to the balancing of power generally in the American system of government. The separation of powers principle has ancient roots. Aristotle, example, wrote that well-ordered constitutions have three elements, one which deliberates about public affairs, another, the officers of the state, and the third, the judicial department.3 Much more important, however, in influence upon the framers of our Constitution were Locke and Montesquieu. Writing in defense of the English Revolution of 1688, Locke maintained that if the legislative and executive powers were in the same hands, they might suit the making and execution of laws to private advantage. And thus the legislative and executive power come often to be separated. Nor, he insisted, might the legislature voluntarily transfer the lawmaking power to any other hands, for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. Delegata potestas non potest delegari.4 The primary fountainhead of the separation of powers doctrine was Montesquieu. In his classic Esprit de Lois he wrote:" @default.
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- W1966703021 title "Separation of Powers Revisited in Light of Watergate" @default.
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