it also stumbles over the conceptual obstacle of the fact that the notion of separation of powers — the division of the executive, judicial and legislative functions of state in different institutions — emerges in the context of absolutist government! the point is to restrain the exercise of power!
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But, in fact, they risk someone different coming along and usurping the whole apparatus to different ends.
Arguably that’s happening right now!
TL:DR -- they're loathsome, evil human beings.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-temporary-order-blocking-trumps-dismantling-usaid/story?id=118585005
also this Reagan appointee, total commie now
https://www.startribune.com/what-to-know-about-the-court-cases-over-president-trumps-birthright-citizenship-order/601217800
It took two revolutions in England in the seventeenth century to impose key restrictions on the king’s powers, and the American Revolution went further.