Court Opinion

ID: 9661569
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 22:43:14.587394+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:30.655852
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ANDERSON, PAUL H., Justice
(concurring).
A legislative, an executive, and a judicial power comprehend the whole of what is meant and understood by government. It is by balancing each of these powers against the other two, that the efforts in human nature towards tyranny can alone be checked and restrained, and any degree of freedom preserved in the constitution.
John Adams, Letter to Richard Henry Lee (Nov. 15, 1775), in 4 The Works of John Adams 186 (Charles Francis Adams ed., 1851), quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations 377 (Fred R. Shapiro ed., 1993).
I join in the concurrence of Justice Page because I share his concerns regarding the balance of power between all three branches of government. That said, nothing about my joining in Justice Page’s concurrence should be construed to diminish my support for the opinion of the majority, which I support without reservation.