Trump v. Slaughter · ¶106

To meet modern challenges, Wilson and others argued, American government needed to reorient itself around the goal of operating with the “utmost possible efficiency.” W. Wilson, The Study of Administration, 2 Pol. Sci. Q. 197 (1887) (Wilson, Study of Administration). Impressed by the perceived competence of the Prussian bureaucracy, they called on the Nation to stop “dogmatiz[ing] about the constitution of government.” Id., at 197–199 (emphasis deleted); see also id., at 204, 217. In our changing world, they said, the project of “distinguish[ing] . . . between” legislative, executive, and judicial powers had to “g[i]ve way . . . to the exigencies of governance.” Landis 1–2.

slip opinion, revised 7/07/26
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