1. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government 380 (Peter Laslett ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2d ed. 1970) (1690) (emphasis omitted).
2. Radio Act of 1927, ch. 169, 44 Stat. 1162 (repealed 1934).
3. In The Federalist No. 47, Madison invokes “the celebrated Montesquieu” as the “oracle who is always consulted” on the subject of separation of powers. The Federalist No. 47, at 301 (James Madison) (Clinton Rossiter ed., 1961).
4. The Federalist No. 47, at 303. For more discussion of the strong influence of Montesquieu’s separation of powers theory on the Founders, see M. J. C. Vile, Constitutionalism and the Separation of Powers 76–97(1967).
5. U.S. Const, art. I, § 1.