Rouse v. Johnson

Dissenting Opinion by

Judge Willis.

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” The Federalist, No. 47. Thomas Jefferson, desiring to frustrate forever the tendency toward tyranny and to forestall the encroaching nature of power, formulated the constitutional limitation that each of the three distinct powers of government should be confided to a separate body of magistracy, and each forbidden to invade the…