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Emerging Issues in Separation of Powers

February 1, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. EST/12:00 p.m. PST

Virtual via Zoom

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Our Constitution established three separate branches of government: legislative, executive, and judicial.

The key word is “separate,” because allowing multiple powers to accumulate in any one government body is, as James Madison said, “the very definition of tyranny.”

Yet a cavalcade of regulatory agencies has multiplied in size and scope, seized far more than their constitutional share of power, and eroded the safeguards of liberty enshrined in the Constitution.

Examples are all around us, every day. From the Department of Education’s student loan cancellations to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Act abuses to government agencies’ in-house enforcement of their own rules, bureaucrats brazenly act as executives, lawmakers, and judges in their quest for greater control over our lives.

PLF has been relentlessly defending the Constitution’s sacred protections for 50 years, and today we’re blazing a new path to rein in the runaway regulatory state.

Join us for Emerging Issues in Separation of Powers, the first installment of a four-part series. PLF attorneys will walk you through this constitutional crisis, explain our work to restore the rightful balance of powers, and lay out PLF’s top priorities for preserving the separation of powers in the years to come.

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Event Speakers

Caleb Kruckenberg

Pacific Legal Foundation, Attorney

Charles Yates

Pacific Legal Foundation, Attorney

Aditya Dynar

Pacific Legal Foundation, Attorney