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Separation of powers
Meaning
Noun
●
In Government & Politics:
A
theoretical
model for
governance
, common in
democratic
states
, which
features
the
division
of
sovereign
power into
at least
three (but sometimes
up to
six
)
organs of state
in order to
forestall
tyranny
, by
preventing
the
acquisition
of a
monopoly
of power by a
monarch
or
oligarchy
; also, such an arrangement.
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