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    It is not the case that A government must separate executive, legislative, and judicial powers in order to provide citizens with the greatest possible liberty.

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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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    • 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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