State Ex Rel. Albritton v. Lee

This case presents a question which every member of this Court, I think, would welcome relief from deciding, because it involves to a high degree a critical analysis of the powers of government exercised by the legislative branch in what seems to be an effort on its part to encroach upon the dignity and independence of the judicial branch.

Every student of American History and American and English Law knows that whatever powers of government may exist in the fanciful theories of time serving politicians, three basic, underlying and all controlling and all embracing powers do exist and they are…