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« on: June 27, 2005, 10:08:44 PM » |
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It's often said in this country that we have "a government of laws and not of men." I wonder how many of the people saying that phrase know where it comes from.
It comes from the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, which reads in part as follows:
"In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: The judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men."
Today, executive agencies of the United States government have a great deal of legislative power.
So how can we say we are a government of laws and not of men?
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