Peter Berkowitz On The Prevention Of Abuses Of Power

Published: November 8, 2018

A well-designed constitution protects individual freedoms by preventing the abuse of power by the government. Each branch of government acts to check and balance the other branches of government. The real protection of our freedoms is the prevention of abuses of power through the wise structure of the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary.

This video’s audio is excerpted from Peter Berkowitz’s 2017 Hoover Institution Summer Policy Boot Camp lecture. 

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Additional Resources

• Read Constitutional Conservatism: Liberty, Self-Government, and Political Moderationby Peter Berkowitz, available here.
• Listen as Peter Berkowitz discusses the constitutional safeguards that help protect the United States from bad governance, regardless of who holds office, available here.
• Read Renewing the American Constitutional Tradition, edited by Peter Berkowitz, available for free on Scribd here.
• Read “Confronting the Administrative Power Grab” by Peter Berkowitz, available here.