Show I TIlE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONAL 1 by y i a c ran Jaa-ran SAFETY INSURANCE in- in int in- in into does dividing Congress branches branches-a House and a t to two Senate safeguard us By bitter experience the Amen Ameri can Colonists learned to fear the despotism of a legislative body as aswell aswell well as of a single ruler also r revolution they After the learned the feeble Confederation Confederation Congress must have that sufficient power to provide a gov cov of oC respect and authority For these reasons our liron limits specified tion within w the vests v vw all legislative making law consisting ofa of power in n a Congress a 1 Senate and a 3 louse house of Representatives This The Federalist the most author authoritative Con Con- upon our commentary republican gov- gov says In the le legislative mal law law law- authority necessarily pre mak-ing mak mates nates The remedy for this incon- incon concentration of power is to divide the legislature Con Con- Congress gress ress into different branches and to render them by different modes of election and different principles of action as little connected with i each other as the nature of their common functions and their com com com- common mon dependence on the the society will admit Within the limits specified in OUr Constitution we the people give all making lawmaking power to Congress Con Con- Congress gress But we protect ourselves from the danger danler of concentrating all such power in a single sincle body of men by dividing iding Congress into two branches branches-a House and a Senate Senat Next Week No Ruling Class Copyright 1936 br by Berns rn |