"The government was to exist and move by virtue of the efficacy of ‘checks and balances.’ The trouble with the theory is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. No living thing can have its organs offset against each other, as checks, and live." -Woodrow Wilson, 1913

New laws! Insurance companies have to pay for your COVID tests (8/mo) and companies with over 100 employees have to get vaxxed or tested incessantly (for the moment, at least). But before anyone alive today was born, Congress had to pass laws. And we kind of pretended that was still what was going on but it wasn't anymore.

Agencies should be granted “all necessary powers” and we should “not [be] too greatly concerned with the extent to which such action does violence to the traditional tripartite theory of government organization.” -James Landis, 1938