Constitutionalism and the Separation of Powers¶
Vile, M. J. C. (1967). Constitutionalism and the Separation of Powers. Clarendon Press.
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- Checks and Balances
- Checks and balances often conflate two distinct goals, a distinction Vile (1967) tracks across the development of constitutional doctrine: functional separation (legislative authority over law-making, executive authority over enforcement) and power distribution (ensuring no actor becomes predominant).
This sourceIntellectual-historical treatment tracing the doctrine from antiquity through Locke, Montesquieu, and the U.S. founding; argues that pure separation, mixed government, and checks-and-balances are analytically distinct doctrines (distinct personnel, functions, and procedures) whose conflation has obscured the institutional core.
- Checks and balances often conflate two distinct goals, a distinction Vile (1967) tracks across the development of constitutional doctrine: functional separation (legislative authority over law-making, executive authority over enforcement) and power distribution (ensuring no actor becomes predominant).
- Separation of Powers
- Each branch has distinct personnel, staffing models, incentive structures, and decision-making timescales, a feature Vile (1967) treats as the empirical core of the doctrine in his historical analysis of constitutionalism and the separation of powers.
This sourceModern intellectual-historical treatment tracing the doctrine from antiquity through Locke, Montesquieu, and the U.S. founding; argues that pure separation, mixed government, and checks-and-balances are analytically distinct doctrines whose conflation has obscured the institutional core—distinct personnel, functions, and procedures across branches.
- Each branch has distinct personnel, staffing models, incentive structures, and decision-making timescales, a feature Vile (1967) treats as the empirical core of the doctrine in his historical analysis of constitutionalism and the separation of powers.
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