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href="/wiki/State_(polity)" title="State (polity)">state</a> power (usually <a href="/wiki/Legislature#Legislation" title="Legislature">law-making</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adjudication" title="Adjudication">adjudication</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Executive_(government)#Function" title="Executive (government)">execution</a>) and requires these operations of <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">government</a> to be conceptually and institutionally distinguishable and articulated, thereby maintaining the integrity of each.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWaldron2013457–458_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWaldron2013457%E2%80%93458-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To put this model into practice, government is divided into structurally independent branches to perform various functions<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWaldron2013459–460_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWaldron2013459%E2%80%93460-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (most often a legislature, a judiciary and an administration, sometimes known as the <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">trias politica</i></span>). When each function is allocated strictly to one branch, a government is described as having a high degree of separation; whereas, when one person or branch plays a significant part in the exercise of more than one function, this represents a <a href="/wiki/Fusion_of_powers" title="Fusion of powers">fusion of powers</a>. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#History"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Antiquity"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Antiquity</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Early_modern_concepts_of_mixed_government"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Early modern concepts of mixed government</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Tripartite_system"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Tripartite system</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#John_Locke's_legislative,_executive,_and_federative_powers"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span> <span class="toctext">John Locke's legislative, executive, and federative powers</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Montesquieu's_separation_of_powers_system"><span class="tocnumber">1.5</span> <span class="toctext">Montesquieu's separation of powers system</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Checks_and_balances"><span class="tocnumber">1.6</span> <span class="toctext">Checks and balances</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Theories_of_division_of_state_power"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Theories of division of state power</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Legislation"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Legislation</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Adjudication"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Adjudication</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Execution"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Execution</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#Proposed_fourth_types"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Proposed fourth types</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="#Further_reading"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Further reading</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="#Explanatory_notes"><span class="tocnumber">7.1</span> <span class="toctext">Explanatory notes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="#Citation_footnotes"><span class="tocnumber">7.2</span> <span class="toctext">Citation footnotes</span></a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Antiquity">Antiquity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Antiquity" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman Republic</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Senate" title="Roman Senate">Roman Senate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">Consuls</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Roman_assemblies" title="Roman assemblies">Assemblies</a> showed an example of a <a href="/wiki/Mixed_government" title="Mixed government">mixed government</a> according to <a href="/wiki/Polybius" title="Polybius">Polybius</a> (<i>Histories</i>, Book 6, 11–13). It was Polybius who described and explained the system of checks and balances in detail, crediting <a href="/wiki/Lycurgus_of_Sparta" class="mw-redirect" title="Lycurgus of Sparta">Lycurgus of Sparta</a> with the first government of this kind.<sup id="cite_ref-Polibius_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Polibius-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_modern_concepts_of_mixed_government">Early modern concepts of mixed government</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early modern concepts of mixed government" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p><a href="/wiki/John_Calvin" title="John Calvin">John Calvin</a> (1509–1564) favoured a system of government that divided political power between <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democracy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aristocracy" title="Aristocracy">aristocracy</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mixed_government" title="Mixed government">mixed government</a>). Calvin appreciated the advantages of <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democracy</a>, stating: "It is an invaluable gift if God allows a people to elect its own government and magistrates."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In order to reduce the danger of misuse of political power, Calvin suggested setting up several political institutions that should complement and control each other in a system of <a href="#Checks_and_balances">checks and balances</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In this way, Calvin and his followers resisted <a href="/wiki/Autocracy" title="Autocracy">political absolutism</a> and furthered the growth of democracy. Calvin aimed to protect the rights and the well-being of ordinary people.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="Quotation needed from source to verify. (November 2015)">need quotation to verify</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 1620 a group of English separatist <a href="/wiki/Congregationalists" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregationalists">Congregationalists</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anglicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglicans">Anglicans</a> (later known as the <a href="/wiki/Pilgrim_Fathers" class="mw-redirect" title="Pilgrim Fathers">Pilgrim Fathers</a>) founded <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Colony" title="Plymouth Colony">Plymouth Colony</a> in North America. Enjoying self-rule, they established a bipartite democratic system of government. The <a href="/wiki/Freeman_(Colonial)" class="mw-redirect" title="Freeman (Colonial)">"freemen"</a> elected the <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_General_Court" title="Plymouth General Court">General Court</a>, which functioned as legislature and judiciary and which in turn elected a governor, who together with his seven "assistants" served in the functional role of providing executive power.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony" title="Massachusetts Bay Colony">Massachusetts Bay Colony</a> (founded 1628), <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a> (1636), <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a> (1636), <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> had similar constitutions – they all separated political powers. </p><p><a href="/wiki/John_Locke" title="John Locke">John Locke</a> (1632–1704) deduced from a study of the English constitutional system the advantages of dividing political power into the legislative (which should be distributed among several bodies, for example, the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> and the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons" title="House of Commons">House of Commons</a>), on the one hand, and the executive and federative power, responsible for the protection of the country and prerogative of the monarch, on the other hand, as the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">Kingdom of England</a> had no written constitution.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tripartite_system">Tripartite system</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Tripartite system" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a>, the parliamentarians viewed the English system of government as composed of three branches – the King, the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> and the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons" title="House of Commons">House of Commons</a> – where the first should have executive powers only, and the latter two legislative powers. One of the first documents proposing a tripartite system of separation of powers was the <a href="/wiki/Instrument_of_Government" title="Instrument of Government">Instrument of Government</a>, written by the English general <a href="/wiki/John_Lambert_(general)" title="John Lambert (general)">John Lambert</a> in 1653, and soon adopted as the constitution of England for few years during <a href="/wiki/The_Protectorate" title="The Protectorate">The Protectorate</a>. The system comprised a legislative branch (the Parliament) and two executive branches, the <a href="/wiki/English_Council_of_State" title="English Council of State">English Council of State</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Lord_Protector" title="Lord Protector">Lord Protector</a>, all being elected (though the Lord Protector was elected for life) and having checks upon each other.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A further development in English thought was the idea that the judicial powers should be separated from the executive branch. This followed the use of the juridical system by the Crown to prosecute opposition leaders following <a href="/wiki/The_English_Restoration" class="mw-redirect" title="The English Restoration">the Restoration</a>, in the late years of <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II</a> and during the short reign of <a href="/wiki/James_II_of_England" title="James II of England">James II</a> (namely, during the 1680s).<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first constitutional document to establish the principle of the separation of powers in government between the legislative, executive, and judiciary branches was <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Pylyp_Orlyk" title="Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk">Pacts and Constitutions of Rights and Freedoms of the Zaporizhian Host</a>, written in 1710 by <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukrainian</a> Hetman <a href="/wiki/Pylyp_Orlyk" title="Pylyp Orlyk">Pylyp Orlyk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="Source is in French, but I see no mention of Pylyp Orlyk in it and, looking at The Spirit of the Laws article, it seems an odd source to cite in support of this assertion. (May 2021)">verification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="John_Locke's_legislative,_executive,_and_federative_powers"><span id="John_Locke.27s_legislative.2C_executive.2C_and_federative_powers"></span>John Locke's legislative, executive, and federative powers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: John Locke's legislative, executive, and federative powers" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Locke_by_John_Greenhill.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/John_Locke_by_John_Greenhill.jpg/220px-John_Locke_by_John_Greenhill.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="267" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2245" data-file-height="2729"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 267px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/John_Locke_by_John_Greenhill.jpg/220px-John_Locke_by_John_Greenhill.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="267" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/John_Locke_by_John_Greenhill.jpg/330px-John_Locke_by_John_Greenhill.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/John_Locke_by_John_Greenhill.jpg/440px-John_Locke_by_John_Greenhill.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/John_Locke" title="John Locke">John Locke</a></figcaption></figure> <p>An earlier forerunner to Montesquieu's tripartite system was articulated by <a href="/wiki/John_Locke" title="John Locke">John Locke</a> in his work <i><a href="/wiki/Two_Treatises_of_Government" title="Two Treatises of Government">Two Treatises of Government</a></i> (1690).<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <i>Two Treatises</i>, Locke distinguished between legislative, executive, and federative power. Locke defined legislative power as having "... the right to direct how the force of the commonwealth shall be employed" (2nd Tr., § 143), while executive power entailed the "execution of the laws that are made, and remain in force" (2nd Tr., § 144). Locke further distinguished federative power, which entailed "the power of war and peace, leagues and alliances, and all transactions with all persons and communities without [outside] the commonwealth" (2nd Tr., § 145), or what is now known as <a href="/wiki/Foreign_policy" title="Foreign policy">foreign policy</a>. Locke distinguishes between separate powers but not discretely separate institutions, and notes that one body or person can share in two or more of the powers.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Within these factors Locke heavily argues for "Autry for Action" as the scope and intensity of these campaigns are extremely limited in their ability to form concentrations of power. For instance, Locke noted that while the executive and federative powers are different, they are often combined in a single institution (2nd Tr., § 148). </p><p>Locke believed that the legislative power was supreme over the executive and federative powers, which are subordinate.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Locke reasoned that the legislative was supreme because it has law-giving authority; "[F]or what can give laws to another, must need to be superior to him" (2nd Tr., §150). According to Locke, legislative power derives its authority from the people, who have the right to make and unmake the legislature. He argues that once people consent to be governed by laws, only those representatives they have chosen can create laws on their behalf, and they are bound solely by laws enacted by these representatives.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Locke maintains that there are restrictions on the legislative power. Locke says that the legislature cannot govern arbitrarily, cannot levy taxes, or confiscate property without the <a href="/wiki/Consent_of_the_governed" title="Consent of the governed">consent of the governed</a> (cf. "<a href="/wiki/No_taxation_without_representation" title="No taxation without representation">No taxation without representation</a>"), and cannot transfer its law-making powers to another body, known as the <a href="/wiki/Nondelegation_doctrine" title="Nondelegation doctrine">nondelegation doctrine</a> (2nd Tr., §142). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Montesquieu's_separation_of_powers_system"><span id="Montesquieu.27s_separation_of_powers_system"></span>Montesquieu's separation of powers system</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Montesquieu's separation of powers system" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Montesquieu_1.png" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Montesquieu_1.png/220px-Montesquieu_1.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="270" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1177" data-file-height="1447"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 270px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Montesquieu_1.png/220px-Montesquieu_1.png" data-width="220" data-height="270" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Montesquieu_1.png/330px-Montesquieu_1.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Montesquieu_1.png/440px-Montesquieu_1.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Montesquieu" title="Montesquieu">Montesquieu</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The term "tripartite system" is commonly ascribed to French <a href="/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment" title="Age of Enlightenment">Enlightenment</a> <a href="/wiki/Political_philosopher" class="mw-redirect" title="Political philosopher">political philosopher</a> <a href="/wiki/Montesquieu" title="Montesquieu">Montesquieu</a>, although he did not use such a term but referred to the "distribution" of powers. In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spirit_of_Law" title="The Spirit of Law">The Spirit of Law</a></i> (1748),<sup id="cite_ref-Espritdeslois3_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Espritdeslois3-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Montesquieu described the various forms of distribution of <a href="/wiki/Political_power" class="mw-redirect" title="Political power">political power</a> among a <a href="/wiki/Legislature" title="Legislature">legislature</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Executive_(government)" title="Executive (government)">executive</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Judiciary" title="Judiciary">judiciary</a>. Montesquieu's approach was to present and defend a form of government whose powers were not excessively centralized in a single monarch or similar ruler (a form known then as "aristocracy"). He based this model on the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Roman_Republic" title="Constitution of the Roman Republic">Constitution of the Roman Republic</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Constitution of the United Kingdom">British constitutional system</a>. Montesquieu took the view that the Roman Republic had powers separated so that no one could usurp complete power.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the British constitutional system, Montesquieu discerned a separation of powers among the monarch, Parliament, and the courts of law.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law. </p><p>By virtue of the first, the prince or magistrate enacts temporary or perpetual laws and amends or abrogates those that have been already enacted. By the second, he makes peace or war, sends or receives embassies, establishes public security, and provides against invasions. By the third, he punishes criminals or determines the disputes that arise between individuals. The latter we shall call the judiciary power, and the other simply the executive power of the state. </p> </blockquote> <p>Montesquieu argues that each Power should only exercise its own functions. He was quite explicit here:<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. </p><p>Again, there is no liberty, if the judiciary power is not separated from the legislative and executive. Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control; for the judge would be then the legislator. Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with violence and oppression. </p><p> There would be an end to everything, were the same man or the same body, whether of the nobles or of the people, to exercise those three powers, that of enacting laws, executing the public resolutions, and trying the causes of individuals. </p></blockquote> <p>Separation of powers requires a different source of legitimization, or a different act of legitimization from the same source, for each of the separate powers. If the legislative branch appoints the executive and judicial powers, as Montesquieu indicated, there will be no separation or division of its powers, since the power to appoint carries with it the power to revoke.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>The executive power ought to be in the hands of a monarch, because this branch of government, having need of despatch, is better administered by one than by many: on the other hand, whatever depends on the legislative power is oftentimes better regulated by many than by a single person. </p><p>But if there were no monarch, and the executive power should be committed to a certain number of persons selected from the legislative body, there would be an end then of liberty; by reason, the two powers would be united, as the same persons would sometimes possess, and would be always able to possess, a share in both. </p> </blockquote> <p>Montesquieu actually specified that the <a href="/wiki/Judicial_independence" title="Judicial independence">judicial independence</a> has to be real, and not merely apparent.<sup id="cite_ref-Przeworski_26_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Przeworski_26-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The judiciary was generally seen as the most important of the three powers, independent and unchecked.<sup id="cite_ref-Przeworski_13_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Przeworski_13-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Checks_and_balances">Checks and balances</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Checks and balances" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Checks and balances" redirects here. For the conservative-libertarian organization, see <a href="/wiki/Checks_and_Balances_(organization)" title="Checks and Balances (organization)">Checks and Balances (organization)</a>.</div> <p>According to the principle of checks and balances, each of the branches of the state should have the power to limit or check the other two, creating a balance between the three separate powers of the state. Each branch's efforts to prevent either of the other branches from becoming supreme form part of an eternal conflict, which leaves the people free from government abuses. <a href="/wiki/Immanuel_Kant" title="Immanuel Kant">Immanuel Kant</a> was an advocate of this, noting that "the problem of setting up a state can be solved even by a nation of devils" so long as they possess an appropriate constitution to pit opposing factions against each other.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Checks and balances are designed to maintain the system of separation of powers keeping each branch in its place. The idea is that it is not enough to separate the powers and guarantee their independence but the branches need to have the constitutional means to defend their own legitimate powers from the encroachments of the other branches.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under this influence it was implemented in 1787 in the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">Constitution of the United States</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Federalist_No._78" title="Federalist No. 78">Federalist No. 78</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton" title="Alexander Hamilton">Alexander Hamilton</a>, citing Montesquieu, redefined the judiciary as a separately distinct branch of government with the legislative and the executive branches.<sup id="cite_ref-Wood_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wood-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Before Hamilton, many colonists in the American colonies had adhered to British political ideas and conceived of government as divided into executive and legislative branches (with judges operating as appendages of the executive branch).<sup id="cite_ref-Wood_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wood-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The following example of the separation of powers and their mutual checks and balances from the experience of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Constitution">United States Constitution</a> (specifically, <a href="/wiki/Federalist_No._51" title="Federalist No. 51">Federalist No. 51</a>) is presented as illustrative of the general principles applied in <a href="/wiki/Presidential_system" title="Presidential system">similar forms of government</a> as well:<sup id="cite_ref-federalistNo51_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-federalistNo51-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection of human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government that is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. </p><p>A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control of the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, private as well as public. We see it particularly displayed in all the subordinate distributions of power, where the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other and that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights. These inventions of prudence cannot be less requisite in the distribution of the supreme powers of the State. </p> </blockquote> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Theories_of_division_of_state_power">Theories of division of state power</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Theories of division of state power" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <p>There are different theories about how to differentiate the functions of the state (or types of government power), so that they may be distributed among multiple structures of government (usually called branches of government, or arms).<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are analytical theories that provide a conceptual lens through which to understand the separation of powers as realized in real-world governments (developed by the academic discipline of <a href="/wiki/Comparative_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Comparative government">comparative government</a>); there are also <a href="/wiki/Normativity" title="Normativity">normative</a> theories,<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> both of <a href="/wiki/Political_philosophy" title="Political philosophy">political philosophy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_law" title="Constitutional law">constitutional law</a>, meant to propose a reasoned (not conventional or arbitrary) way to separate powers. Disagreement arises between various normative theories in particular about what is the (desirable, in the case of political philosophy, or prescribed, in the case of legal studies) allocation of functions to specific governing bodies or branches of government.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMöllers2019234_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEM%C3%B6llers2019234-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> How to correctly or usefully delineate and define the ‘state functions’ is another major bone of contention.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMöllers2019240_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEM%C3%B6llers2019240-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legislation">Legislation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Legislation" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Legislature#Legislation" title="Legislature">Legislature § Legislation</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Statute" title="Statute">Statute</a></div> <p>The legislative function of the government broadly consists of authoritatively issuing binding rules. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adjudication">Adjudication</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Adjudication" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Adjudication" title="Adjudication">Adjudication</a> and <a href="/wiki/Judgment_(law)" title="Judgment (law)">Judgment (law)</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">July 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The function of adjudication (judicial function) is the binding application of legal rules to a particular case, which usually involves creatively interpreting and developing these rules. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Execution">Execution</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Execution" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Executive_(government)#Function" title="Executive (government)">Executive (government) § Function</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">July 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The executive function of government includes many exercises of powers in fact, whether in carrying into effect legal decisions or affecting the real world on its own initiative. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Proposed_fourth_types">Proposed fourth types</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Proposed fourth types" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Government_agency" title="Government agency">Government agency</a>, <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_court" title="Constitutional court">Constitutional court</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Election_commission" title="Election commission">Election commission</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">July 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Adjudicating constitutional disputes is sometimes conceptually distinguished from other types of power, because applying the often unusually indeterminate provisions of constitutions tends to call for exceptional methods to come to reasoned decisions. Administration is sometimes proposed as a hybrid function, combining aspects of the three other functions; opponents of this view conceive of the actions of administrative agencies as consisting of the three established functions being exercised next to each other merely in fact. Supervision and integrity-assuring activities (e.g., supervision of elections), as well as mediating functions (<span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">pouvoir neutre</i></span>), are also in some instances regarded as their own type, rather than a subset or combination of other types. For instance Sweden have four powers, judicial, executive, legislative and administrative branches. </p><p>One example of a country with more than 3 branches is <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>, which uses a five-branch system. This system consists of the <a href="/wiki/Executive_Yuan" title="Executive Yuan">Executive Yuan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Legislative_Yuan" title="Legislative Yuan">Legislative Yuan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Judicial_Yuan" title="Judicial Yuan">Judicial Yuan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Control_Yuan" title="Control Yuan">Control Yuan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Examination_Yuan" title="Examination Yuan">Examination Yuan</a>. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section 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href="/wiki/Democracy_and_economic_growth" title="Democracy and economic growth">Democracy and economic growth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Estate" title="Fourth Estate">Fourth Estate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fusion_of_powers" title="Fusion of powers">Fusion of powers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judicial_activism" title="Judicial activism">Judicial activism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legal_reform" class="mw-redirect" title="Legal reform">Legal reform</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_sovereignty" title="Parliamentary sovereignty">Parliamentary sovereignty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophy of law">Philosophy of law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pith_and_substance" title="Pith and substance">Pith and substance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politicization" class="mw-redirect" title="Politicization">Politicization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Consociationalism" title="Consociationalism">Power sharing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reserve_power" title="Reserve power">Reserve power</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rule_of_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Rule of Law">Rule of Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rule_according_to_higher_law" title="Rule according to higher law">Rule according to higher law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state" title="Separation of church and state">Separation of church and state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Separation_of_duties" title="Separation of duties">Separation of duties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Signing_statement" title="Signing statement">Signing statement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supermajority" title="Supermajority">Supermajority</a></li></ul></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration 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.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFGwyn1965" class="citation book cs1">Gwyn, William B. (1965). <i>The Meaning of the Separation of Powers</i>. New Orleans/The Hague: Tulane University Press/Martinus Nijhoff. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/174573519">174573519</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Meaning+of+the+Separation+of+Powers&rft.place=New+Orleans%2FThe+Hague&rft.pub=Tulane+University+Press%2FMartinus+Nijhoff&rft.date=1965&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F174573519&rft.aulast=Gwyn&rft.aufirst=William+B.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASeparation+of+powers" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVile1967" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Vile" title="Maurice Vile">Vile, Maurice J. 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Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780198738084" title="Special:BookSources/9780198738084"><bdi>9780198738084</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/818450015">818450015</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Three+Branches%3A+A+Comparative+Model+of+Separation+of+Powers&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2013&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F818450015&rft.isbn=9780198738084&rft.aulast=M%C3%B6llers&rft.aufirst=Christoph&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASeparation+of+powers" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSaunders2018" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Saunders" title="Cheryl Saunders">Saunders, Cheryl</a> (2018). "Theoretical underpinnings of the separation of powers (ch. 4)". In Jacobsohn, Gary; Schor, Miguel (eds.). <i>Comparative Constitutional Theory</i>. Research Handbooks in Comparative Constitutional Law. Cheltenham, England; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. pp. 66‒85. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.4337%2F9781784719135.00009">10.4337/9781784719135.00009</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-78471-912-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-78471-912-8"><bdi>978-1-78471-912-8</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/999482105">999482105</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Theoretical+underpinnings+of+the+separation+of+powers+%28ch.+4%29&rft.btitle=Comparative+Constitutional+Theory&rft.place=Cheltenham%2C+England%3B+Northampton%2C+MA&rft.series=Research+Handbooks+in+Comparative+Constitutional+Law&rft.pages=66%E2%80%9285&rft.pub=Edward+Elgar&rft.date=2018&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F999482105&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.4337%2F9781784719135.00009&rft.isbn=978-1-78471-912-8&rft.aulast=Saunders&rft.aufirst=Cheryl&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASeparation+of+powers" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMöllers2019" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Möllers, Christoph (September 2019). <span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-comparative-constitutional-law/separation-of-powers/3A31875119575C2579078E364117393A">"Separation of Powers (ch. 9)"</a></span>. In Masterman, Roger; Schütze, Robert (eds.). <i>The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Constitutional Law</i>. Cambridge Companions to Law. Cambridge University Press. pp. 230‒257. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2F9781316716731">10.1017/9781316716731</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-107-16781-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-107-16781-0"><bdi>978-1-107-16781-0</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1099539425">1099539425</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Separation+of+Powers+%28ch.+9%29&rft.btitle=The+Cambridge+Companion+to+Comparative+Constitutional+Law&rft.series=Cambridge+Companions+to+Law&rft.pages=230%E2%80%92257&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2019-09&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1099539425&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2F9781316716731&rft.isbn=978-1-107-16781-0&rft.aulast=M%C3%B6llers&rft.aufirst=Christoph&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambridge.org%2Fcore%2Fbooks%2Fcambridge-companion-to-comparative-constitutional-law%2Fseparation-of-powers%2F3A31875119575C2579078E364117393A&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASeparation+of+powers" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Further reading" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <ul><li>Peter Barenboim, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.florentine-society.ru/pdf/Biblical_Roots_of_Separation_of_Powers.pdf">Biblical Roots of Separation of Powers</a></i>, Moscow, Letny Sad, 2005. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/5-94381-123-0" title="Special:BookSources/5-94381-123-0">5-94381-123-0</a>, Permalink: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://lccn.loc.gov/2006400578">LC Catalog - Item Information (Full Record)</a></li> <li>Biancamaria Fontana (ed.), <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521033764">The Invention of the Modern Republic</a></i> (2007) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-03376-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-521-03376-3">978-0-521-03376-3</a></li> <li>Bernard Manin, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=GhAJ2x2coEoC">Principles of Representative Government</a></i> (1995; English version 1997) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-45258-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-45258-9">0-521-45258-9</a> (hbk), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-45891-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-45891-9">0-521-45891-9</a> (pbk)</li> <li>José María Maravall and <a href="/wiki/Adam_Przeworski" title="Adam Przeworski">Adam Przeworski</a> (eds), <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=EMB-F6Forx8C">Democracy and the Rule of Law</a></i> (2003) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-82559-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-82559-8">0-521-82559-8</a> (hbk), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-53266-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-53266-3">0-521-53266-3</a> (pbk)</li> <li>Paul A. Rahe, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110716145832/http://www.hillsdalesites.org/personal/prahe/logicofliberty.html"><i>Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty</i></a> (2009) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-300-14125-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-300-14125-2">978-0-300-14125-2</a> (hbk), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-300-16808-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-300-16808-2">978-0-300-16808-2</a> (pbk)</li> <li>Iain Stewart, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120319161702/http://www.law.mq.edu.au/research/law_journals/macquarie_law_journal/">"Men of Class: Aristotle, Montesquieu and Dicey on 'Separation of Powers' and 'the Rule of Law'"</a> 4 <i>Macquarie Law Journal</i> 187 (2004)</li> <li>Iain Stewart, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110408194916/http://ouclf.iuscomp.org/articles/montesquieu.shtml">"Montesquieu in England: his 'Notes on England', with Commentary and Translation"</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alec_Stone_Sweet" title="Alec Stone Sweet">Alec Stone Sweet</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=61AzsGk7EW0C">Governing with Judges: Constitutional Politics in Europe</a></i> (2000) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-829730-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-829730-7">978-0-19-829730-7</a></li> <li>Evan C. Zoldan, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3106780">Is the Federal Judiciary Independent of Congress?</a></i>, 70 Stan. L. Rev. Online 135 (2018).</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Separation_of_powers&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: External links" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">28 March</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=avalon.law.yale.edu&rft.atitle=The+Avalon+Project%3A+Federalist+No+48&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Favalon.law.yale.edu%2F18th_century%2Ffed48.asp&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASeparation+of+powers" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Wood-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Wood_28-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Wood_28-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWood2018" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Gordon_S._Wood" title="Gordon S. Wood">Wood, Gordon S.</a> (2018). Scalia, Antonin (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=l3CYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA54"><i>Comment</i></a>. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 49–64. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2Fj.ctvbj7jxv.6">10.2307/j.ctvbj7jxv.6</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 August</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Strengths+of+the+Weakest+Arm%2C+Keynote+address%2C+Australian+Bar+Association+Conference%2C+Florence%2C+2+July+2004&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hcourt.gov.au%2Fassets%2Fpublications%2Fspeeches%2Fformer-justices%2Fmchughj%2Fmchughj_2july04.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASeparation+of+powers" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-federalistNo51-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-federalistNo51_30-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames" class="citation web cs1">James, Madison. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed51.asp">"The Avalon Project: Federalist No. 51"</a>. <i>avalon.law.yale.edu</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 March</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=avalon.law.yale.edu&rft.atitle=The+Avalon+Project%3A+Federalist+No.+51&rft.aulast=James&rft.aufirst=Madison&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Favalon.law.yale.edu%2F18th_century%2Ffed51.asp&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASeparation+of+powers" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFM%C3%B6llers2019">Möllers 2019</a>, p. 239: "The modern theory of separated powers [...] addresses the necessary or possible relations between [institutional] actors and their normative ‘functions’. Legislation, execution of laws and adjudication are ‘functions’ that the states or other public authorities fulfil and that are carried out by respective ‘branches’. In this context, the notion of ‘function’ refers to different types of legally relevant actions."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">On this distinction, see <a href="#CITEREFM%C3%B6llers2019">Möllers 2019</a>, p. 231.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMöllers2019234-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEM%C3%B6llers2019234_33-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFM%C3%B6llers2019">Möllers 2019</a>, p. 234.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMöllers2019240-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEM%C3%B6llers2019240_34-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFM%C3%B6llers2019">Möllers 2019</a>, p. 240.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdstr%C3%ADb%C3%BDti" title="Valdstríbýti – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Valdstríbýti" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9paration_des_pouvoirs" title="Séparation des pouvoirs – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Séparation des pouvoirs" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaradh_cumhachta%C3%AD" title="Scaradh cumhachtaí – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Scaradh cumhachtaí" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separaci%C3%B3n_de_poderes" title="Separación de poderes – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Separación de poderes" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B6%8C%EB%A0%A5_%EB%B6%84%EB%A6%BD" title="권력 분립 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="권력 분립" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BB%D5%B7%D5%AD%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%AB_%D5%A2%D5%A1%D5%AA%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B4_(%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BD%D5%B4%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6%D6%84)" title="Իշխանությունների բաժանում (ուսմունք) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Իշխանությունների բաժանում (ուսմունք)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A3" title="शक्तियों का पृथक्करण – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="शक्तियों का पृथक्करण" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioba_vlasti" title="Dioba vlasti – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Dioba vlasti" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemisahan_kekuasaan" title="Pemisahan kekuasaan – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Pemisahan kekuasaan" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipting_r%C3%ADkisvaldsins" title="Skipting ríkisvaldsins – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Skipting ríkisvaldsins" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separazione_dei_poteri" title="Separazione dei poteri – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Separazione dei poteri" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA" title="הפרדת הרשויות – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="הפרדת הרשויות" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamisahan_kakuwasan" title="Pamisahan kakuwasan – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Pamisahan kakuwasan" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%AE%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A4%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%AC%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%90" title="ხელისუფლების დანაწილება – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ხელისუფლების დანაწილება" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B4%D1%96%D2%A3_%D0%B1%D3%A9%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%96" title="Биліктердің бөлінуі – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Биліктердің бөлінуі" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mgawanyo_wa_madaraka" title="Mgawanyo wa madaraka – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Mgawanyo wa madaraka" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%B1%D3%A9%D0%BB%D2%AF%D0%BD%D2%AF%D2%AF_%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F%D1%81%D1%8B" title="Бийликтин бөлүнүү теориясы – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Бийликтин бөлүнүү теориясы" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BA%81%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%99%E0%BB%81%E0%BA%8D%E0%BA%81%E0%BB%83%E0%BA%8A%E0%BB%89%E0%BA%AD%E0%BA%B3%E0%BA%99%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%94" title="ການແຍກໃຊ້ອຳນາດ – Lao" lang="lo" hreflang="lo" data-title="ການແຍກໃຊ້ອຳນາດ" data-language-autonym="ລາວ" data-language-local-name="Lao" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ລາວ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trias_politica" title="Trias politica – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Trias politica" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valsts_varas_dal%C4%AB%C5%A1ana" title="Valsts varas dalīšana – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Valsts varas dalīšana" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vald%C5%BEi%C5%B3_padalijimo_principas" title="Valdžių padalijimo principas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Valdžių padalijimo principas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separazion_di_poder" title="Separazion di poder – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Separazion di poder" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_hatalmi_%C3%A1gak_sz%C3%A9tv%C3%A1laszt%C3%A1sa" title="A hatalmi ágak szétválasztása – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="A hatalmi ágak szétválasztása" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B1%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0" title="Поделба на власта – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Поделба на власта" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisaraham-pahefana" title="Fisaraham-pahefana – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Fisaraham-pahefana" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%A7%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B0_%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%83%E0%B4%A5%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A3%E0%B4%82" title="അധികാര പൃഥക്കരണം – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="അധികാര പൃഥക്കരണം" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BE" title="राज्यकारभाराच्या शाखा – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="राज्यकारभाराच्या शाखा" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B5%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%AA" title="فصل السلطات – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="فصل السلطات" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembahagian_kuasa" title="Pembahagian kuasa – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Pembahagian kuasa" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trias_politica" title="Trias politica – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Trias politica" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A3" title="शक्ति पृथकीकरण – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="शक्ति पृथकीकरण" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%A9%E5%8A%9B%E5%88%86%E7%AB%8B" title="権力分立 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="権力分立" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maktfordelingsprinsippet" title="Maktfordelingsprinsippet – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Maktfordelingsprinsippet" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maktfordelingsprinsippet" title="Maktfordelingsprinsippet – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Maktfordelingsprinsippet" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separacion_dels_poders" title="Separacion dels poders – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Separacion dels poders" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pap mw-list-item"><a href="https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trias_politica" title="Trias politica – Papiamento" lang="pap" hreflang="pap" data-title="Trias politica" data-language-autonym="Papiamentu" data-language-local-name="Papiamento" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Papiamentu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%8A_%D9%88%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%86%D9%88_%D9%88%DB%90%D8%B4" title="د دولتي واکونو وېش – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="د دولتي واکونو وېش" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheden_vun_de_M%C3%A4cht" title="Scheden vun de Mächt – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Scheden vun de Mächt" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podzia%C5%82_w%C5%82adz" title="Podział władz – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Podział władz" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separa%C3%A7%C3%A3o_de_Poderes" title="Separação de Poderes – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Separação de Poderes" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separa%C8%9Bia_puterilor" title="Separația puterilor – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Separația puterilor" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rm mw-list-item"><a href="https://rm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separaziun_da_las_pussanzas" title="Separaziun da las pussanzas – Romansh" lang="rm" hreflang="rm" data-title="Separaziun da las pussanzas" data-language-autonym="Rumantsch" data-language-local-name="Romansh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Rumantsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimsantin_atiy" title="Kimsantin atiy – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Kimsantin atiy" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B9" title="Разделение властей – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Разделение властей" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_o_pouers" title="Separation o pouers – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Separation o pouers" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%B6%E0%B6%BD%E0%B6%AD%E0%B6%BD_%E0%B6%B6%E0%B7%99%E0%B6%AF%E0%B7%93%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%9A_%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8A%E2%80%8D%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%BA" title="බලතල බෙදීමේ න්‍යාය – Sinhala" lang="si" 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