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How does the Seperation of Powers work within the American Constitution?
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How does the Seperation of Powers work within the American Constitution? When the founding fathers wrote the Constitution they came up with a revolutionary idea which is known as the seperation of powers. This incorperated a system which protected the principles on which the constitution was based, such as avoiding tyranny and forming a more perfect union. The way the seperation of powers work is known as vertical and horizontal. The vertical seperation of powers has three different branches, the Federal government, the state governments and the much smaller local governments. The local governments consist of a mayor, councils and county courts, these would ytake care of things such as legislation on parking offences and littering. The two main branches are the Federal and state governments, the Federal government is supeme and the legislation passed in the Federal legislature takes precedence over that which is passed in the...
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