Levin’s Liberty Amendments

I’m reading Levin’s great book The Liberty Amendments: Restoring The American Republic and came across a quote from Montesquieu that reads:

When legislative power is united with executive power in a single person or in a simple body of magistracy, there is no liberty because one can fear that the same monarch or senate that makes tyrannical laws will execute them tyrannically.

This goes to the heart of the argument against the administrative state we have become. The philosophers read by our founders knew it and so should we. It is the people and the state’s abdication of their responsibilities implied by our Constitution that has led us here. Chapter 6 of Mark’s book has his proposal for reversing this.

I whole-heartedly endorse this provision.