Separation Of Powers Quotes

Separation Of Powers Quote of the day

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.

I have a great deal of concern for any president and the amount of power they accumulate versus congress. I'm a stickler about the idea of separation of powers.

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections.

Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete.

The separation of powers is about legislative powers. It isn't about discussion or words.

If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge.