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So that one branch of governments powers would be opposed by the other branches of government. This distribution of power is the checks and balances that are built in the US Constitution.
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Idea that the powers of government should be divided between and given to different branches called?
Separation of Powers Separation of Powers
Dividing the powers of the government as the colonial charters did is called?
Separation of powers is what dividing the powers of government is called.
How did the separation of powers affect the American government?
The government would have become a tyranny if there was no separation of powers
How does judicial activism and judicial restraint affect the separation of powers?
Judicial activism weakens the separation of powers by involving the Court in what are traditionally executive and legislative functions. Judicial restraint reinforces separation of powers.
Separation of powers involves the separation of?
involves the separation of executive, legislative and judicial branches of government.
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