Writing for the majority in Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983), Chief Justice _____ stated, "The Constitution sought to divide the delegated powers of the new federal government into three defined categories, legislative, executive and judicial, to assure, as nearly as possible, that each Branch of government would confine itself to its assigned responsibility. The hydraulic

pressure inherent within each of the separate Branches to exceed the outer limits of its power, even to accomplish desirable objectives, must be resisted.".

a. Warren E. Burger
b. Earl Warren
c. William Rehnquist
d. John Roberts

A

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