{"id":781,"date":"2007-05-24T14:32:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T22:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=781"},"modified":"2007-05-24T14:32:46","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T22:32:46","slug":"separation-of-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Separation of powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Madsen is being his amusing self&nbsp;over at <a href=\"http:\/\/connectid.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/checks-and-balances.html\">ConnectID<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Doesn&#39;t the principle of &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.constitutioncenter.org\/explore\/BasicGoverningPrinciples\/SeparationofPowersandaSystemofChecksandBalances.shtml\" class=\"broken_link\"><font color=\"#6699cc\">Separation of Powers<\/font><\/a>&#8216; forbid Kim <a href=\"\/?p=780\"><font color=\"#6699cc\">playing<\/font><\/a> both the legislative and judicial roles, i.e. writing the &#8216;laws&#8217;, and then adjuticating on compliance?<\/p>\n<p>Certainly makes for efficient government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which Eric Norman replies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, it never stopped Murphy from sitting in judgement about his law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course&nbsp;this is all about&nbsp;what I claim are laws of computer science, not legal edicts,&nbsp;and the phenomena described are measurable.&nbsp; We should really end up agreeing about how systems behave, even if we&nbsp;finally disagree about how they <em>should<\/em> behave.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We should really end up agreeing about how systems behave, even if we finally disagree about how they should behave.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}