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.

For readjustment to the U.S., volunteers should be given some separation allowance at the end of their overseas service, based on the length of time served.

Satsuma is served by the Satsuma City School System, following the successful separation from the Mobile County Public School System in 2012.

He considered the conscious part of the mind to be useless for this, believing that it only served to reinforce the separation between ourselves and that which we desire.

From 1818 until the accession of Queen Victoria, and the separation of the British and Hanoverian crowns in 1837, the Duchess of Cambridge lived in Hanover, where the Duke served as viceroy on behalf of his brothers, George IV and William IV.

" Global Refusal " served as an important manifesto that advocated the separation of church and state in Quebec, especially for the arts.

He graduated from the United States Naval Test Pilot School in 1981, and served at the Naval Air Test Center at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, as the A-6 program manager, X-29 advanced technology demonstrator project officer, and as a test pilot for flight systems and ordnance separation testing on A-6 Intruder and A-4 Skyhawk series aircraft.

Strict separation of powers does not operate in The United Kingdom, the political structure of which served in most instances as a model for the government created by the U. S. Constitution.

At the end of World War II it served as a separation center.

Upon separation from Massachusetts and the admission of the Maine as a state, he was elected to the United States Senate and served from June 13, 1820, to March 3, 1827.

While in exile, Princess Tenagnework gave birth to Emebet Tsige Mariam ( Mary ) during a brief union with Ato Abebe Retta, who later served in ambassadorial and other roles in the post-war imperial government, and would eventually become president of the Imperial Senate after their separation.

In the two World Wars, Fort Hamilton served as a major embarkation and separation center.

His biographer notes at least four serious points of departure between Hillquit and the Industrial Workers of the World wing of the party: ( 1 ) a disbelief in the stability and efficacy of industrial unions ; ( 2 ) A distaste for the strike-oriented tactics of the IWW as opposed to collective bargaining ; ( 3 ) A belief in the separation of functions between the political and labor wings of the workers ' movement, as opposed to the IWW's desire to make industrial organization primary ; and ( 4 ) The radical tone of IWW propaganda, which Hillquit believed served to alienate much of society from the socialist movement and marginalize the left.

As the kippah served as a reminder of the Creator above all, ( also a symbol of separation from God ), so the chuppah was erected to signify that the ceremony and institution of marriage has divine origins.

On a more personal note, " Honey " served as Carey's first single after her separation from estranged husband, Tommy Mottola, who also lead her current record label, Columbia.

One of the contributors to this journal was none other than Sekiguchi Sakae, Okada ’ s close companion for many years and his successor as Oshienushi ( and who later served as head of the Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyodan following the separation from Sukyo Mahikari ).

The edicts of the Council of Elvira, although early ( and perhaps precedent-setting ) examples of Church-inspired anti-Semitism, provide evidence of Jews who were integrated enough into the greater community to cause alarm among some: of the Council's 80 canonic decisions, all which pertain to Jews served to maintain a separation between the two communities ( Laeuchli, pp. 75 – 76 ).

He also served from 1998 to 2004 as an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught a seminar on the separation of powers.

He served until his separation from military service in 1945, as a captain.