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Show 148 Thomas defines end points call, It ment one of the most in this country. out the historical firmly entrenched The theory it meant when (lr. they ere werking to in the our In in harmony antctgonism thot we thot constitutional develop three coordinate governments you have we He theory. no govern.mtlnt CIt ell three functions of government handled In three separate working likes theories in never ;meont operating sepotately, for then" he says, error But , spheres. have government; it is when It is they have the oppos,lte of government. Thornos introduce his Latin and Greek ot sitJ.nifican.t points. He,e he wonts to substitute the Greek word for the Latin, insisting his meaning is dearer. When you hove or hCltmony in its branches you, hove j-<eFCH• antogonism yeu have "anar<:hy. checks and balances. disharmofty n2 Thorn_, however, realizes th.at any branch eise of its e,onstitutionol When you hove functions, can of de$troy the Govemment, in the exer- idea beMnd the systems of He said: In America, governed CIS we ore by (1 Con$tltution whose ultimote success rests upon the thin thread of fair play, we have l·ost the ability to appreciate the power of that simple idea. Our Constitution and our Government CKIlere, not because we have a President who it Commander- 2 Ibid., Vol. 82, p, 1637 (75th Congress, 2d Sess., April 25, 1938). Thomas suggests at vorious points in his dlscwsion of this theory the or tho_x view that SWe argue today not in support of on actuality thot never existed, but in stlPport of Q theory which Montesquieu Gnd &Iackstone thought they sow, the same theory which an oncient G,reek who studied Roman Institutions tt thought he, too, sew. , pp. 1437, 1438. |
