Both measures were meant to restrict the perceived arbitrary exercise of executive authority.

It is the arbitrary exercise of power in order to preserve the 'right' of bond traders to enrich themselves.

Public furor over this arbitrary exercise of power caused the legislature to restore it a few days afterward by another act.

For example, trying to figure out how many black people have first names starting with the letter 'a' would be a fairly arbitrary, random exercise.

The Constitution established three separate branches of government not for efficiency but to avoid the arbitrary exercise of power.

Once equity became a body of law, rather than an arbitrary exercise of conscience, there was no reason why it needed its own courts.

This imperial system has become, for us, a by-word for autocracy and the arbitrary exercise of power.

No unrest born of arbitrary exercise of might would be permitted to rear its dangerous head.

According to this doctrine, the power of the state is limited in order to protect citizens from the arbitrary exercise of authority.

The rule of law is what stands between all of us and the arbitrary exercise of power by the state.