Parliament Quote by Prashant Bhushan

“Executive power thus could be exercised adjacent to legislation without actually trespassing on legislative power. The executive, for example, could make regulations and interpretations…

— Philip Hamburger

The function of parliament is to hold the executive to account. We should never overlook the primacy of parliament.

— Betty Boothroyd

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

— Charles Krauthammer

There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it…

— Alexander Hamilton

Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.

— Fabrizio Moreira

Parliamentary sovereignty - the right to pass laws as the supreme legal authority in the land, including laws that limit the powers of the…

— Nicky Morgan

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of…

— John Adams

A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for…

— John Adams

More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state or federal…

— William J. Brennan

“By the same token, the executive cannot exercise legislative power, even if it has legislative authorization, for when it acts alone, it is a…

— Philip Hamburger

“The executive possesses means of distracting Parliament from its proper function; it seduces members by the offer of places and pensions, by retaining them…

— J.G.A. Pocock

“In sum, part I has shown that administrative law revives prerogative legislation, together with the prerogative of suspending and dispensing with law—thus restoring an…

— Philip Hamburger