Concept

Separation of powers

Overview

division of government into branches such that legislative, executive, and judicial functions are exercised by distinct, separately constituted political bodies

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Philosophers who discussed Separation of powers

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Norberto Bobbio
• John Locke
• Jean Bodin
• Thomas Hobbes
• Carl Schmitt
• Montesquieu
• David Hume
• Abdolkarim Soroush
• Louis de Bonald
• Harvey Mansfield
• Nicos Poulantzas
• Carsun Chang

Related ideas

• Executive (government)
• Consent of the governed
• Government
• Immanuel Kant
• John Locke
• United States House of Representatives
• Political philosophy
• United States Senate
• Taiwan
• Roman Republic
• State (polity)
• Age of Enlightenment
• Thomas Paine
• United States
• Normativity
• Alexander Hamilton
• Legislature
• Montesquieu
• Constitutional law
• English Civil War

Opposing perspectives

• John Adams

Place in the tradition

Part of American philosophy.

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