Gewaltenteilung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- checks and balances noun A system in which the separate parts of a government or organisation each hold powers that limit the others, so that no single part can act without restraint.
- separation of powers noun The constitutional principle that the legislative, executive and judicial functions of government should be held by separate bodies, so that no one branch can control the state on its own.
Senses
Gewaltenteilung is used for these senses in English:
- checks and balances (politics) A system for multiple branches of government wherein each has some control over the actions of each of the others.
- separation of powers 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.