Separation Of Powers Quotes

“There is no liberty, if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and executive.”

“It is not the function of the judges to step in and change the law because they don't like it.”

“The judicial power should be a check on the legislative.”

“The great danger to our institutions does not appear to me to be in a usurpation by the government of power not granted by the people, but by the accumulation in one of the departments of that which was assigned to others.”

“The House of Representatives, in its legislative capacity, has no more right to catechise the President, than the President has to catechise the House.”

“Courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern.”