Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simplest demonstration of weakness in the Executive Branch," Bundy said, "is its subordination to Congress in matters of appropriation and taxation." He cited the present impasse over the tax increase as a case of Congress frustrating the Executive...
...Executive Branch is further handicapped, Bundy went on, by the lack of genuine harmony between the President and his bureacracy. This makes it difficult, he said, for there ever to be "sustained, coordinated and energetic" Executive action...
...other weakness of the Executive Branch, Bundy added, are "under-representation of the public interest" and lack of interconnection between parties legitimately involved...
...Supreme Court has determined that the existence of jurisdiction does not require its exercise. A court sometimes has discretion not to act-particularly in controversies involving a question more properly decided by the political branch than the judicial. And the Powell case seemed to qualify as such a political question. Therefore, wrote Judge Warren E. Burger, Powell's claims "are inappropriate for judicial consideration...
Judge Burger had one final observation. Any judgment that has the effect of frustrating the House action "would inevitably bring about a direct confrontation with a co-equal branch. Conflicts between federal branches are not merely unseemly but often destructive of important values. The checks and balances we boast of can check and balance just so far. Each branch may occasionally make errors for which there may be no effective remedy," but that "is one of the prices we pay for this independence, this separateness, of each co-equal branch and for the desired supremacy of each within its sphere...