Court Of Appeal Holds Governor Can Make Laws In An Emergency
By EsqSocial Corporation 06/05/21
The passage of the Lex Titia in 43 B.C.E. effectively legalized the end of the Roman Republic. The law was passed in the crisis arising from the assassination the year before of Gaius Julius Caesar. The Lex Titia bestowed on three men (the triumviri) to make and annul laws for the purpose rei publicae constituendae (restoring the republic). The problem, of course, is that when executive and legislative powers are combined, the result is rule by decree and despotism. Our founding fathers...
By: Allen Matkins