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than it can be helpful.
Somehow the Minority feels that the protection
of people rests with an executive which must be constantly
checked, and I suppose if this argument is carried to its
logical extreme one could say that effective government
action can only be in an area where there is a complete
check, and a complete balance, which can only lead to
stalemate.
The fact of the matter is that the most casual
reading to the political philosophy underlying our tri-
party system makes it perfectly clear that the principle
is intended to apply between branches, and not within
branches of the government.
If we undertake to construct a tri-party system,
as this Convention is now committed to do, strong in two
branches, divisive and weak in the third branch, the only
thing that we can expect from that is trouble for the future
The third and final argument which they advance
in the Minority Report is that somehow, by eliminating an
elective office, we are diminishing, and here I use their
term, we are diminishing democracy, to the extent that