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Marie Griffiths MBC What is meant by the term "the separation of power" and what is its practical significance for the political system. What would be the major points that you would like to make? The principle behind the separation of power is to limit the powers of government by separating governmental functions into the executive, legislative and judiciary. The concept has its fullest practical expression in the US constitution. James Madison, who was later to become the fourth US President said: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny". In Madison's vision, the federal government and state governments, as well as the legislature, executive and judiciary would be clearly divided and each would be given a clear motive to check each other. There are two ways...

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