From the President . . . Changes in Attitudes

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming,United States
• Citation: Vol. 28 No. 3 Pg. 6
• Publication year: 2005
• Pages: 6
• Year: 2005
• topic: Civil Rights,Constitutional Law

Wyoming Bar Journal 2005.

Vol. 28, No. 3 #6 (June 2005). FROM THE PRESIDENT . . . Changes in Attitudes

WYOMING LAWYER
June 2005/Vol. XXVIII, No. 3

FROM THE PRESIDENT . . . Changes in Attitudes

By Mark W Harris

Maurice Blake stands as a picture in my mind that I shall never forget. "Mr. Blake," as all students of the Evanston Junior High School eighth grade civics class would respectfully refer to him, was one of the first, if not the first, mentors who instilled in my mind a basic principle of our government that since my eighth grade experience has been repeated several times: our government is based upon the separation of powers into three distinct, but equal, branches of the government - the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial branches

The separation and sharing of powers by three different branches of government is a fundamental and central precept of the United States Constitution as well as the Wyoming Constitution. It is the lynchpin of our form of government. We, as lawyers, may take for granted the importance of the concept of an independent and equally empowered judiciary with the same standing as presidents, governors, Congress and legislatures.

Recently, the independence of our judiciary has...