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Controlling Power by Power?

Summary/Abstract: The author claims that the concept of the separation of power was known to the writers of antiquity such as Tukidides, Plato, Aristotle, Polibus and Cicero, who dealt with the question of the balance of power or the balance of different forms of government. In modern age, liberal thinkers such as Montesquieu, Locke, Madison, and Hamilton postulated the principle of the tension between the opposing functions of the state as the foundation of liberal and democratic constitutional system. The principle of separation or division of power has maintained its significance in the twentieth-century democracies, despite the relativization of the role of the national state through the interdependence of the global society as well as the development of other principles and mechanisms of curtailing the power of the state (political parties, human rights, the autonomy of mass media and of various social sectors). The author asserts that the principle of the separation of power is functioning today primarily as a form of labour division among various government institutions; this division gives rise to a miscellany of the participants’ opinions and preferences.

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