"In observations on this subject,
we hear the legislature mentioned as the people's representatives. The
distinction, intimated by concealed implication, through probably, not avowed
upon reflection, is, that the executive and judicial powers are not connected
with the people by a relation so strong or near or dear. But is high time that
we should chastise our prejudices; and that we should look upon the different
parts of government with a just and impartial eye."
--James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791
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