Separating Power: Essays on the Founding Period

by Gerhard Casper

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The separation of powers along functional lines--legislative, executive, and judicial--has been a core concept of American constitutionalism ever since the Revolution. As noted constitutional law scholar Gerhard Casper points out in this collection of essays, barren assertions of the importance of keeping the powers separate do not capture the complexity of the task when it is seen as separating power flowing from a single source--the people. Popular...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674801407

ISBN13:9780674801400

Release Date:April 1997

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:214 Pages

Weight:0.79 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.3" x 7.8"

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