U.S. House of Representatives v. Mnuchin

TREVOR N. McFADDEN, U.S.D.J.

Few ideas are more central to the American political tradition than the doctrine of separation of powers. Our Founders emerged from the Revolution determined to establish a government incapable of repeating the tyranny from which the Thirteen Colonies escaped. They did so by splitting power across three branches of the federal government and by providing each the tools required to preserve control over its functions. The "great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department," James Madison explained, "consists in giving to…