Watergate Reorganization and Reform Act of 1975: Hearings Before the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session ....

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Página 429 - Hearings before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on S.
Página 92 - If men were angels, no Government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on Government would be necessary. In framing a Government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this : you must first enable the Government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Página 58 - Executive authority, except in its selection, and free to exercise its judgment without the leave or hindrance of any other official or any department of the Government.
Página 365 - It shall be the duty of every District attorney to prosecute in his district all delinquents for crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States...
Página 425 - HR 32, before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee on the Judiciary, 94th Cong., 2d Sess.
Página 365 - States, who shall be sworn or affirmed to a faithful execution of his office; whose duty it shall be to prosecute and conduct all. suits in the Supreme Court in which the United States shall be concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law when required by the President of the United States, or when requested by the heads of any of the departments, touching any matters that may concern their departments, and shall receive such compensation for his services as shall by law be...
Página 92 - In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this : you must first enable the government to control the governed ; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government ; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
Página 74 - While the Constitution diffuses power the better to secure liberty, it also contemplates that practice will integrate the dispersed powers into a workable government. It enjoins upon its branches separateness but interdependence, autonomy but reciprocity.
Página 73 - It was shown in the last paper that the political apothegm there examined does not require that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be wholly unconnected with each other. I shall undertake, in the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over the others, the degree of separation which the maxim requires, as essential to a free government, can never in practice be duly maintained.
Página 413 - ... executive branch of government which is charged with the duty to see that the laws are faithfully executed and enforced in order to maintain the rule of law.

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