Notes On the Constitutional History of the United States
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The uncontrolled acts of either power may end in despotism. " The efficient secret of the English Constitution, " says Baghot, * " may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion of the legislative and ex- ecutive powers. " No doubt, " continues he, " by the traditional theory, as it exists in the books, the good- ness of our constitution consists in the entire separa- tion of the legislative and executive authorities, but in truth its merit consists in their singular approxi- m...ation. The connecting link is the Cabinet, a com- mittee of the legislative body selected to be the execu- tive body. " Whether the traditional theory, as it exists in the books, attributes the goodness of the English Constitu- tion to the entire separation of the legislative and ex- ecutive authorities, I do no not pretend to say, but it is certain that Blackstone, t a century ago, said : " The total union of the legislative and executive powers would be productive of tyranny ; the total disjunction of them would, in the end, produce the same effect, by causing that union against which it seems to provide.
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