SEPARATION OF POWERS; CHECKS AND BALANCES
CONTENT
- Meaning of Separation of Powers
- Separation of Personnel Performing Functions
- Purpose/Reasons for Separation of Powers
- Checks and Balances in the Arms of Government
- Relationship between Separation Of Powers And Checks and Balances
- Separation of Powers in a Parliamentary (Cabinet System of Government)
- Separation of Powers in the Presidential System of Government
- Checks and Balances in a Cabinet (Parliamentary) System of Government
- Checks and Balances in a Presidential System of Government
Separation of Powers in the Arms of Government
Meaning of Separation of Powers
Separation of powers is a principle in government which is defined as the division of governmental political powers that exist in any given states into three organs of government. What the principle is saying is that all the amount of governmental political powers that exist in a given state should not be rested or consolidated in one person or one organ of government. If these powers are divided into three organs of government – the legislature, executive and judiciary, that the chances of dictatorship or tyranny will be reduced.
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