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  • Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.

    Government   Evil   Abuse  
  • The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is something they are all attached to besides self-aggrandizement and our pocketbooks. ... Government is not a machine with parts; it's an organism. When does an intestine quit being an intestine and start becoming an asshole?

  • The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit

    P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.47, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government - one can't overrule the other two.

    Government   Law   Two  
    "Mike Huckabee lays out path to 2016 Republican nomination; Amb. John Bolton talks NSA surveillance, growth of ISIS". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 24, 2015.
  • The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

    "On the Beach, I Bring von Mises". Interview with Stephen Moore, www.wsj.com. June 11, 2011.
  • The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

  • I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the office and who respects the very different roles that the Constitution provides for each of the three branches of government.

    "Sonia Sotomayor Faces Senate For Her Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. July 13, 2009.
  • When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

    "David Mamet's Conservative Conversion". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 8, 2011.
  • You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books.

    Book   Government   Three  
    "Religion, Terror, and Self-Transcendence". CSPAN-2, November 16, 2005.
  • We've never had our injustices rectified from the top, from the president or Congress, or the Supreme Court, no matter what we learned in junior high school about how we have three branches of government, and we have checks and balances, and what a lovely system. No. The changes, important changes that we've had in history, have not come from those three branches of government. They have reacted to social movements.

    "Howard Zinn Talks to Social Studies Teachers". Speech at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference in Houston, zinnedproject.org. November 16, 2008.
  • It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution.

  • Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.

    "Trump's Criticism Of Judges Out Of Line With Past Presidents". Interview with Nina Totenberg, kucb.org. February 11, 2017.
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