The theory envisions three principal powers of government—legislative, executive, and judicial—and contemplates three distinct branches (the Founders often used the term “departments”) to ...

The framers of the Constitution feared too much centralized power, adopting the philosophy of divide and conquer. At the national level, they created three different branches of government to ...

The doctrine held that there were three essentially different powers of government: legislative, executive and judicial; and that a country’s liberty depended on each of these powers being vested in a ...

The separation of powers Political theory recognises three powers of government—the legislative power to make laws; the executive power to carry out and enforce the laws; and the judicial power to ...

Montesquieu observed that the powers of government were of three kinds – Legislative, Executive and Judicial. He said that tyranny results when all these powers are in the same hands. Montesquieu ...

There are at least three power centres. The first is the UNP which is led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. The second is the SLFP led by President Maithripala Sirisena. The existence of these ...