as promised, here is a start, with more to come:
* "The separation of powers doctrine is found in two Biblical concepts: Isaiah 33:22, which identified three branches of government, and Jeremiah 17:9 which taught that man did not naturally tend toward good."
Isaiah 33:22 For the Lord is our judge [Judicial Branch], the Lord is our lawgiver [Legislative], the Lord is our king [Executive]; he will save us.
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Deceitful....sounds a lot like what our politicians in Washington D.C. tend towards.
* "Since man, when left unchecked, moved toward moral and civil degradation, society would be much safer if all power did not repose in the same authority. The three branches of government would provide a perfect means to separate the power and provide protection fro society, because hopefully not all three branches would ever become corrupt at the same time and could therefore place outside safeguards and checks on each other. Separation of powers, as were many of the Founders' political innovations, was a Biblically based idea."
* David Barton, The Myth of Separation p. 196 |
