 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1952 - 1030 sidor
...States, 272 US 52, 293: "The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787, not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise...power. The purpose was, not to avoid friction, but, by means of the inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the governmental powers among three... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1926 - 324 sidor
...issuance of commissions to Governor Howard in 1683 and to Governor Dunmorc in 1771. the Convention of 1787 not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise...power. The purpose was not to avoid friction, but, by means of the inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the governmental powers among three... | |
 | 1927 - 1234 sidor
...(1831 ed.) No. 47. " The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787 not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise...power. The purpose was not to avoid friction, but, by means of the inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the governmental powers among three... | |
 | 1927 - 1228 sidor
...(1831 ed.) No. 47. " The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of .1787 not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise...power. The purpose was not to avoid friction, but, by means of the inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the governmental powers among three... | |
 | Edith M. Phelps - 1927 - 206 sidor
...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 sidor
...Federal Constitution. The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the convention of 1787, not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise...power. The purpose was not to avoid friction but by means of the inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the governmental powers among three... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1937 - 1042 sidor
...It is as follows : The doctrine of the separntion of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787, not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise...power. The purpose was not to avoid friction but. by means of the inevitable friction incident to distribution of the governmental powers among three departments,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1940 - 366 sidor
...laws and not of men." The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted at the Convention of 1787 not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise...power. The purpose was not to avoid friction but, by means of the Inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the governmental powers among three... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1947 - 978 sidor
...US 52, 240, at 293: "The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787, not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise...power. The purpose was, not to avoid friction, but, by means of the inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the governmental powers among three... | |
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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... 
