Il governo attuale di New York.. . ernment si è sviluppato in pratica e dei mezzi con cui svolge le sue funzioni.E' nostro compito ora porre le stesse domande riguardo al dipartimento di applicazione della legge: Come è stato creato? Howis è organizzato? Che cosa può fare? Come lo fa? La Convenzione e la Presidenza. Il creatore- oour Costituzione credeva fermamente nella separazione e nel coordinamento dei tre rami di governo. Per piacersi o meno questa separazione esisteva nei governamenti dei vari stati, e la loro indubbio superiore-ità al governo del con
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Actual government of New York.. . ernment has developed in actualpractice and of the means by which it performs its functions.It is our task now to ask the same questions in regard tothe law-enforcing department: How was it created? Howis it organized ? What may it do ? How does it do it ? The Convention and the Presidency. The maker- oour Constitution believed firmly in the separation and co-ordination of the three branches of government. To agreater or less extent this separation existed in the govern-ments of the various states, and their undoubted superior-ity to the government of the Confederation, in which suchexecutive functions as existed were united writh the legis-lative, was attributed to this fact of separation. Thedesire to establish a similar separation of powers in thenational government, with only so much interaction as wasabsolutely necessary in order to prevent the usurpation ofpower by any one of the three branches, is seen very clearlyin the organization of all of them. It is seen particularly 286. t-3 H 2 Q W DQ 9 w o £ s S W en O w CO n. ^ 5 3w : 25 - 288 ACTUAL GOVERNMENT OF NEW YORK in the creation of what had not before existed, namely, theoffice of president of the United States. The Congress ofthe Confederation had had a presiding officer whom theycalled a president, but aside from the duty of presiding atthe meetings of Congress, his function differed not at allfrom those of his colleagues. He was in no sense the execu-tive head of a government. A Difficult Question. The problems with which the Con-vention struggled in creating and organizing a separateexecutive department seem to have been in some resp<the most troublesome with which it had to deal. Al-most every question that arose in connection with thematter called forth serious debate. Whether there shouldbe a single executive or an executive body or council, whatshould be the length of the term, whether or not the execu-tive should be reeligible, what should be the manner ofcho
