Some of the framers of the US Constitution may have conceived of the president as being an elected constitutional monarch, as the term was understood in their time, following Montesquieu's account of the separation of powers.

There is little mention, for example, of constitutionalism, the separation of powers, and limited government.

In the United States, separation of powers is often cited as a central attribute, but in other countries, such as the United Kingdom, the dominant principle is that of parliamentary sovereignty ( while maintaining judicial independence ).

However, if any democracy is not structured so as to prohibit the government from excluding the people from the legislative process, or any branch of government from altering the separation of powers in its own favor, then a branch of the system can accumulate too much power and destroy the democracy.

The constitution, adopted by referendum in 2005, and promulgated by President Joseph Kabila in February 2006, establishes a decentralized semi-presidential republic, with a separation of powers between the three branches of government-executive, legislative and judiciary, and a distribution of prerogatives between the central government and the provinces.

In politics, dualism refers to the separation of powers between the legislature and executive.

The concepts in the Declaration come from the philosophical and political principles of the Age of Enlightenment, such as individualism, the social contract as theorized by the Swiss philosopher Rousseau, and the separation of powers espoused by the Baron de Montesquieu.

The contemporary Estonian government follows the principles of separation of powers and its people elect a 101-member Riigikogu every four years.

The division of power into separate branches of government is central to the idea of the separation of powers.

The separation of powers system is designed to distribute authority away from the executive branch — an attempt to preserve individual liberty in response to tyrannical leadership throughout history.

The internal workings of the FSM are governed by the 1979 constitution, which guarantees fundamental human rights and establishes a separation of governmental powers.

Guatemala's 1985 Constitution provides for a separation of powers among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.

This constitution provided for a separation of the powers of the executive and the legislative branches of government.

For Hungary, this is a history of more than 400 years of domination by great powers — the Ottomans, the Habsburg dynasty, the Germans during World War II, and the Soviets during the Cold War -- and a geography of regional instability and separation from Hungarian minorities living in neighboring countries.

Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu proposed the separation of powers.

They argue that the American constitution owes as much or more to the English Liberal philosopher John Locke's emphasis on the rights of property and to Montesquieu's theories of the separation of powers.

The new Madagascar constitution established a multi-party democracy and a separation of powers that placed significant control in the hands of the National Assembly.

Nigeria also practices Baron de Montesquieu's theory of the separation of powers.

As a political theorist, he believed in separation of powers and proposed a comprehensive set of checks and balances that are necessary to protect the rights of an individual from the tyranny of the majority.

The National Constitution mandates a separation of powers in three branches.

Under the British system there is a unity of powers rather than separation.

Polybius is also renowned for his ideas concerning the separation of powers in government, later used in Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws and in the drafting of the United States Constitution.

Modern Democratic theories and implementations, especially after Montesquieu's theories, rely on the separation of powers: Executive ( government and police ), legislative ( parliament ) and judicial ( court ) branches of power are separated.

Thus, although Enlightenment philosophers saw the Roman Republic as an ideal system, it included no systematic separation of powers, and depended on slave labor.

Examples include checks and balances, the separation of powers, vetoes, filibusters, quorum requirements, term limits, impeachments, the powers of the purse, and regularly scheduled elections.

But contest definition -- that dramatic muscular separation of every muscle group that seems as though it must have been carved by a sculptor's chisel -- is something quite different.

However implausible this is, it is certainly the case that Aristotle's rigid separation of action from production, and his justification of the subservience of slaves and others to the virtue – or arete – of a few justified the ideal of aristocracy.

The theme of exile and separation is embodied in two characters, Rieux and Rambert, both of whom are separated from the women they love.

The angle between those lines can be measured, and is the angular separation between the two stars.

Animism encompasses the beliefs that there is no separation between the spiritual and physical ( or material ) world, and souls or spirits exist, not only in humans, but also in all other animals, plants, rocks, geographic features such as mountains or rivers, or other entities of the natural environment.

Lightning is also caused by a violent separation, this time of clouds by winds to create a bright, fire-like flash.

* δ Apodis is a double star with a separation of 103 arcseconds.

After the separation of the two offices the position of Astronomer Royal has been largely honorary, though he remains available to advise the Sovereign on astronomical and related scientific matters, and the office is of great prestige.

A more radical defense is to deny the separation of physical world and the platonic world, i. e. the mathematical universe hypothesis.

Analytical chemistry is the study of the separation, identification, and quantification of the chemical components of natural and artificial materials.

The separation of components is often performed prior to analysis.

The separation of materials is accomplished using chromatography, electrophoresis or Field Flow Fractionation methods.

Informally, it is the similarity between observations as a function of the time separation between them.

However, it is more correct for a very slender plate when the angle becomes large and flow separation occurs, or if the flow speed is supersonic.

It does however retain its separation from sexual attraction and as such is seen by many as an orientation within an orientation amongst the asexual community.

The last is equal to a projected separation of about 529 Astronomical Units ( AU ) at the estimated distance of Antares, giving a minimum value for the separation of the pair.

Spectroscopic examination of the energy states in the outflow of matter from the companion star suggest that it is about 224 AU behind the primary, giving a combined separation of about 574 AU.

Agarose is used generally as the medium for analytical scale electrophoretic separation in agarose gel electrophoresis and for column-based preparative scale separation as in gel filtration chromatography and affinity chromatography.

The book of Ruth portrays a perfect example of a true belief in the Creator God in that it propagates inclusion of all, even in the ancient world of the Israelites where separation is made obvious between Israelites and non-Israelites.

These regarded issues such as whether the universe is eternal or non-eternal ( or whether it is finite or infinite ), the unity or separation of the body and the self, the complete inexistence of a person after Nirvana and death, and others.