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    The U.S constitution guards against tyranny through the separations of powers. This claim is true because the constitution was made in order to avert another tyrannical form of government from ever taking place again through the allocation of governmental powers. An example of the division of powers is seen in the Federalist #51 as the document states, “... the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, & the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct

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    The concept of separation of power suggests that the branches of the state; the executive, legislature and the judiciary be divided in terms of their functions and members likewise in other to prevent abuse of power or external influences. In 1748, Montesquieu made a statement which today is regarded as one of the clearest explanations of separation of powers, ‘When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty... there

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    There will be three separate branches of power in order to remain democratic. Each state will be represented by two houses known as the House of Representatives and Senate. The House of Representatives will represent the states by population. For every two hundred citizens in each state, there

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    Commonwealth of Australia, exists a doctrine called the separation of powers. This doctrine exists to ensure that no single body of government, is in a position to hold all the power in the nation, when making decision’s which can be detrimental to others. Yet at the same time Australia does not use doctrine of separations of powers as strictly as other countries. It is the intention of this essay to see how the doctrine of separations of power operates in Australia, then compare it to another country

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    Without the Separation of Powers, the Nation would be lost. The Separation of Powers is defined as “an act of vesting the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial powers of government in separate bodies.” So, to restate that, it’s just our government (a Democracy) divided into three powers. These powers include the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative. Each of these groups has different responsibilities they need to fill in order for our government to function properly and with order. Without the Separation

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    Without the separation of powers, neither of these principles would be realized. Governments perform three functions namely executive, judicial and legislative functions. The role of separation of powers involves the diffusion rather than concentration of powers within the state. Thus, these branches should be separate, unique and equal. The underlying principle of the separation of powers is that individuals have the potential to harm others, and this can become a reality when power is concentrated

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    make a document that would give powers to the people yet also protect against one or more person getting too powerful. This is called tyranny, or a government with absolute power. They protected against it by creating Federalism, Separation of powers, Checks and balances, and Bicameral legislative. This allowed us to have a constitution that guards against suppressive tyrants. One of the guards against tyranny is Federalism. Federalism is the sharing of powers between federal and state governments

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    branches in which the general powers of government should have been. While John Locke made a case for separating the legislative and executive powers, Montesquieu provided the Founders with a compelling defense for an independent judiciary” (Separation of powers). The founders wanted to make sure no one public official had too much power in turn the founders wanted them to observe having constitutional limits to their powers (Magbley 43). It made them want the separation of authority and having something

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    In federalist #51, ‘separation of power’ and ‘federalism’ is similar in many respects. The federal government is the power that is forced to regulate the laws and keep the nation running as smoothly as possible according to the constitution and laws handled down to the citizens for the United States of America. Separation of power is created and used by the federal government to divide each branch of the government into branches, which are separate but equal in power. Federalism is meant as

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    constitution is a topic on the separation of powers. The only power would ever be split between federal and states agencies. The history of events occurred, between time were America was constitutionalized by "Great Britain." The unitary system of power did built guide; however, did not work out. The more history of constitution repeats’ it’s cycle, the system became more unequipped and less advance into political affairs. There were three different system that gather power; however, with the National

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