Executive power must be made commensurate with executive responsibility for government to move

Evidence

The Bureau had become convinced that it was this lodging of administrative power in Legislature rather than Governor that, more than any other single fact, explained the utter failure of twenty years of effort by a succession of liberal Governors such as Roosevelt and Hughes to increase the involvement of the state with the new needs of its people. Because the Governor stood at the head of the state and represented all of its people rather than just one assembly or senate district, the Governor must be held responsible if the state failed to move as the voters wanted it to move. But going hand and hand with responsibility, the Bureau said, must be power. If a man was to be held responsible for moving government, he must be given power to move it, “executive power commensurate with executive responsibility” in the Bureau’s slogan. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 419

Categorization

• DEFINE: The Bureau’s core doctrine: the reform slogan that would justify concentrating power in Moses’s hands.
• XREF: The governance doctrine directly prefigures and licenses every concentration-of-power move Moses makes later; ties to the book’s central theme. — connects to: Free government requires that the executive act only under law made by parliamentary deliberation — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 2872; Legitimate government conceives power as a mutually observed trust — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1182; Political power is lawmaking backed by force and limited to the public good — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 7 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Free government requires that the executive act only under law made by parliamentary deliberation #qualifies (0.82) — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 2872
• Legitimate government conceives power as a mutually observed trust #complicates (0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1182
• Legal structures both express and reinforce the distribution of power #complicates (0.74) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3798
• Political power is lawmaking backed by force and limited to the public good #qualifies (0.72) — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 7