Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency.
Jonathan Turley
Related As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branc... CHARLES B. RANGEL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The fundamental idea is that through the separation of powers and checks and balances, different voi... THOMAS O. SARGENTICH Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is v... TODD TIAHRT In turning now to the principle of dialogue underlying the Constitution's structure, it is important... THOMAS O. SARGENTICH Furthermore, the managerial ethos of parliamentary reformism is in direct tension with important val... THOMAS O. SARGENTICH The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has ... JOHN C. DANFORTH The phrase ‘separation of church and state,’ which appears in no founding document (only in a le... DENNIS PRAGER Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ough... JAMES MADISON We live in the present with knowledge that the past is alive in us – our history speaks to us. The... KILROY J. OLDSTER You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS the series of checks and balances that exemplify the genius of our founding fathers. HENRY HYDE This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances. GRACIE ALLEN This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances. GRACIE ALLEN This is a matter of principle. It's about our right to know the truth about why our loved ones were ... ALICE HOGLAN What we have here is a checks-and-balances system. Ozzie says whatever he wants. And Kenny is the vo... CHRIS WIDGER This department's system of checks and balances has corrected this ongoing mistake and prevented its... JIM ZITO The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS The founders established a government of checks and balances so nobody could take advantage. As for ... ALEXANDER HAMILTON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances. GRACIE ALLEN We are quite confident the system has sufficient checks and balances. LLOYD AXWORTHY In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stri... DENNIS CARDOZA Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and ... STEVE ALLEN In Liberia there has always been a very strong executive branch that has not had effective checks an... DONALD BOOTH In short, what we seem to be seeing is a state banking system that is increasing in relative numbers... DONALD POWELL She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am running to fix the economy, restore the constitutional system of checks and balances and to end... DAVE BRAT We cannot have it all. We must live with our limitations. We cannot hold onto life with higher estee... KILROY J. OLDSTER It is monitored and audited to the dime. There are all kinds of checks and balances and procedures t... DENNIS FRANCHIONE She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must... RONALD REAGAN Every new & successful example therefore of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and c... JAMES MADISON For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other y... JOHN F. KENNEDY They knew that to put God in the constitution was to put man out. They knew that the recognition of ... ROBERT G. INGERSOLL If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under. RONALD REAGAN It is important we have a checks and balances system. A bicameral legislature provides a diversity o... ARI ADLER In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which t... ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a ... EZRA TAFT BENSON Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�... CHERYL R COWTAN In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executiv... WILLIAM SAFIRE Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is a sign of decreasing self-esteem and increasing moral turpitude WES HALL When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of che... CHELLIE PINGREE Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances... ROY MOORE I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA Part of what a union provides is what I would call checks and balances. ROBIN LASH The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That's why t... DAVID IGNATIUS I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would no... SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?" There was nothing but uncompromising w... SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you. His first words to me— not a lie at a... SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door. And I was not a mouse. I ... SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared. SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake." "It's not the end of the world if you do that every n... SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ... SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers. ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ... PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?" "Ah. The Suriel to... SARAH J. MAAS Congress must assert its proper role and seek the truth. A government that fails to honor its own la... CAROLINE FREDRICKSON One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. THOMAS PAINE When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion t... HARRY A. BLACKMUN The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' nam... E.L. DOCTOROW I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic pre... JOHN F. KENNEDY We're well aware of all the questions surrounding the plan. But we felt there was a system of checks... JAMES ROBINSON Our typical role is to work with the state in support of local and state agencies. DAVID PASSEY The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS And these Things, which live by perishing, know you are praising them; transient, they lo... RAINER MARIA RILKE The bill doesn't make provision for checks and balances of the council. 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impossible. PAUL DICKSON Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never
play cards with a man named Doc. And... PAUL DICKSON Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum
tolerable well being. PAUL DICKSON Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second
entry. PAUL DICKSON Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended
it to happen. PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
inform the reader but to protect the ... PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know
there is a problem. PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. PAUL DICKSON Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again. PAUL DICKSON About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the
ends. PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely. PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a
problem, it always helps if you know the ... PAUL DICKSON Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the headlight of ... PAUL DICKSON Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the
first word that stuck in his head. MICHAEL BLAKE A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
the resulting unreliability becom... PAUL DICKSON
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