| In 1983, the Supreme Court stunned Congress by declaring that the legislative veto was an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers. |
| That was the beginning of the violation of the constitutional separation of powers and checks and balances. |
| We're left with an amendment that achieves social conservative aims by subverting both the separation of powers and federalism. |
| Politically, civil society relies on the separation of powers, political pluralism and public access to state and public affairs. |
| Clark was sometimes annoyed by his colleagues' inability to grasp the substance of federalism and particularly the separation of powers. |
| It's a system that has produced feistily independent judges for centuries, whatever the theoretical breach of the separation of powers principle. |
