...the different departments of government. The thirtieth article of the Bill of Rights declares — " In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative...them : to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men." Messrs. Wines and Dwight, in their Report on the Prisons and Reformatories of the United...

...the different departments of government. The thirtieth article of the Bill of Rights declares — " In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative...them : to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men." Messrs. Wines and Dwight, in their Report on the Prisons and Reformatories of the United...

...legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them : tJie executive shall never exercise the legislative and...them : to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men." Messrs. Wines and Dwight, in their Report on the Prisons and Reformatories of the United...

...co-ordinate departments : the Legislative, Executive and Judicial. B. That "in the government of the commonwealth the legislative department shall never...judicial shall never exercise the legislative and 15. What arc appeals ? Why are they allowed ? What is their result ? 16. Repeat the principles printed...

...separate departments ', whereas the final version of the Constitution went beyond this to declare that the ' legislative department shall never exercise...them, to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men '." Adams was consistent throughout his life in opposing this strict compartmentalization...

...constitution as adopted, the provision drafted by John Adams left no doubt as to what was intended. "In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative...executive and judicial powers, or either of them; THE SEPARATION OF POWERS 153 . the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers,...

...departments shall be separate and distinct." The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 was more emphatic: "The legislative department shall never exercise the...them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men." But if practice, not declamation, be the criterion, it is equally obvious that commitment...

...this state, except in the instances in this Constitution hereinafter expressly directed or permitted, the legislative department shall never exercise the...powers, or either of them; the executive shall never exorcise the legislative nnd judicial powers, or either of them; the judicial shall never exercise...

...refutes 144. Justice Scalia's opinion sets forth the full quotation from Part the First, Article XXX: In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative...them; to the end it may be a government of laws, and not of men. Id. 145. US CONST, art. II, § 1, cl. 1. 146. 108 S. Ct. at 2626 (emphasis in original)....

...Revolutionary constitutionalism. The most famous provision of the Declaration of Rights was Article XXX: In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative...them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men. Article XXX's classic statement of the doctrine of separation of powers captures the essence...