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    A government must separate executive, legislative, and ju... — Carmelics
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    A government must separate executive, legislative, and judicial powers in order to provide citizens with the greatest possible liberty.

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    • 1.Every person or body invested with power is apt to abuse it.
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    • 2.It is necessary from the nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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    • 3.If different persons or bodies exercise executive, legislative, and judicial powers, each can check the others against abuse.
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    • 1.Rousseau argued that sovereignty is inalienable and indivisible: splitting legislative power dilutes the general will into mere factional interest.
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    • 2.A fragmented government cannot enact the unified popular will that genuine republican liberty requires, producing gridlock rather than freedom.
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    • 3.Liberty under law depends on laws that reflect collective self-governance, which institutional division systematically undermines.
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    • 1.Schmitt demonstrated that in genuine crises, the separation of powers collapses: the sovereign who decides the exception holds all effective power.
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    • 2.If exceptional circumstances routinely require unified executive action—war, emergency, pandemic—then separated powers describe ordinary politics but not the conditions under which liberty is most threatened.
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    If it is to provide its citizens with the greatest possible liberty, a government must have certain features. First, since "constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it ... it is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power" (SL 11.4). This is achieved through the separation of the executive, legislative, and judicial powers of government. If different persons or bodies exercise these powers, then each can check the others i
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