ABSTRACT
The problem of separation of powers has been of prominent and continuing interest to administrative writers. Students of administration have been hostile to the tripartite separation of powers. The "certain control" may be found either within the governmental system; or if the formal governmental system attempts to enforce a separation of powers, "outside of that system and in the political party", as has happened in the United States. The constitutional principle of the separation of powers, reported the Committee, places "in the President, and in the President alone, the whole executive power of the Government of the United States". The subtleties and contradictions involved in taking away the President's "administrative" power with one hand and giving it back with the other only accent the difficulties inherent in our separation of powers system. The chapter treats incidentally the topics of "division of labor" and "specialization and interrelation of functions".
