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  2. Separation of powers under the United States Constitution

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    Separation of powers has again become a current issue of some controversy concerning debates about judicial independence and political efforts to increase the accountability of judges for the quality of their work, avoiding conflicts of interest, and charges that some judges allegedly disregard procedural rules, statutes, and higher court ...

  3. Divided government in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The model can be contrasted with the fusion of powers in a parliamentary system where the executive and legislature (and sometimes parts of the judiciary) are unified. Those in favor of divided government believe that such separations encourage more policing of those in power by the opposition, as well as limiting spending and the expansion of ...

  4. Separation of powers - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Madisonian model - Wikipedia

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    The Madisonian model is a structure of government in which the powers of the government are separated into three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. This came about because the delegates saw the need to structure the government in such a way to prevent the imposition of tyranny by either majority or minority.

  6. Presidential system - Wikipedia

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    The defining aspect of presidential systems is the separation of powers that divides the executive and the legislature. Advocates of presidential systems cite the democratic nature of presidential elections, the advantages of separation of powers, the efficiency of a unitary executive, and the stability provided by fixed-terms.

  7. Category:Separation of powers - Wikipedia

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    Separation of powers under the United States Constitution This page was last edited on 1 November 2020, at 12:55 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  8. Dual federalism - Wikipedia

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    Dual federalism, also known as layer-cake federalism or divided sovereignty, is a political arrangement in which power is divided between the federal and state governments in clearly defined terms, with state governments exercising those powers accorded to them without interference from the federal government.

  9. Separation of powers in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The role of the separation of powers has changed with the rise of judicial involvement in the affairs of government. [1] Albert Venn Dicey, writing in 1915 in Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, described the separation of powers as "the offspring of a double misconception". [2]