Finance Commission v. Norwood

in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice GREEN, Justice WILLETT, Justice GUZMAN, Justice LEHRMANN, Justice BOYD, and Justice DEVINE joined, and in Parts I and II of which Justice JOHNSON joined.

The separation of the powers of government into three distinct, rival branches— legislative, executive, and judicial — is “the absolutely central guarantee of a just Government.” 1 Checks and balances among the branches protect the individual. It is the separation of powers, for example, that establishes bills of rights as rules of law rather than merely hollow words, which is all they are in most…