Separating Power: Essays on the Founding Period

by Gerhard Casper

Book Overview

The separation of powers along functional lines--legislative, executive, and judicial--has been a core concept of American constitutionalism ever since the Revolution. As noted constitutional law scholar Gerhard Casper points out in this collection of essays, barren assertions of the importance of keeping the powers separate do not capture the complexity of the task when it is seen as separating power flowing from a single source--the people. Popular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674801407
• ISBN13: 9780674801400
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.8"