If the executive or the judicial branch be deprived of powers conferred upon either as checks on the legislative, the preponderance of the latter will become disproportionate and absorbing and the others impotent for the accomplishment of the great objects for which they were established.

Gradually the turmoil subsided, but it left her weak, inert, impotent.

They wander "loose about," they nothing see, Themselves except, and creatures like themselves, Short-liv'd, short-sighted, impotent to save.

Gradually the turmoil subsided, but it left her weak, inert, impotent.