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To: Jim Robinson

"Equal and separate powers."

Not even close. The Congress was originally meant to wield more power and responsibility than the other two, and the President more than the courts.

The notion of "coequal" is nonsense.


39 posted on 02/10/2005 5:30:19 AM PST by Veritas et equitas ad Votum (If the Constitution "lives and breathes", it dies.)
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To: Veritas et equitas ad Votum
Not even close. The Congress was originally meant to wield more power and responsibility than the other two, and the President more than the courts. The notion of "coequal" is nonsense.

Your source? None of the branches was supposed to be more powerful or wield more power than another.

49 posted on 02/14/2005 12:46:45 PM PST by HenryLeeII (Democrats have helped kill more Americans than the Soviets and Nazis combined!)
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