... hoped that it would act as a check on other branches. In addition, separation of the branches was intended to ensure judicial independence from political pressures. (Barone and Cohen, 54) Statesman Alexander Hamilton argued in The Federalist papers that "the judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power."(Bernotas, 113) Because the judiciary lacked the lawmaking or enforcement powers ... , its authority would rest solely on the quality of its judgments. The judicial branch has indeed proved to be the least powerful branch as Hamilton predicted, but it has p...

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... at the time. Both of them responded that they gave aid to the defendants as a gesture of humanitarian aid to help with a fair trial (Ervin, 189-90). On July 13, Alexander Butterfield testified. Butterfield, a longtime aid to the President, revealed that the President had been taping conversations and meetings that went on in the Oval Office, and that it was Butterfield ... and the House planned to have separate hearings. On March 18, 1986, the House and Senate Committee leadership, headed by Senators Daniel Inouye and Warren Rudman, along with Congressman Lee Hamilton and Dick Cheney, d...

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