Sovereignty emanates from the people and should be exercised in trust in accord with will of the People according to the 1992 ...

The judiciary’s role in a democracy is to protect individual rights, promote equality, and ensure that the rule of law is upheld, but it can only perform this role if it is allowed to act ...

Kenyans and the world are watching with bated breath how the Judiciary is going to navigate this delicate matter .

Fellow Ghanaians, in the Federalist NO . 78, Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of the Constitution of the ...

The practice has been ongoing for decades in Carson City despite the Nevada Constitution’s separation of powers clause, which ...

The idea that one branch of government should not dominate the others stems from the principle of checks and balances rooted in Montesquieu’s theory of the separation of powers. The recent ...

The United States of America is a country divided down the middle. Travelling across both coasts before the November 5 ...

1, "There is no separation of powers in SAR ... What happens when the judiciary and executive become one? Montesquieu wrote: "Were (the judiciary power) joined to the executive power, the judge ...

By law, a pope possesses supreme executive, legislative and judicial authority in the Catholic Church, meaning there simply is no such thing as a separation of powers. To claim that Vatican courts ...

Both sides are laying out the stakes in the US elections in the starkest terms ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jeffrey Rosen of the National Constitution Center, about how the future president could employ unitary theory, which gives the executive branch nearly unbridled power.

Framers of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 must have had Montesquieu's arguments in mind when they re-emphasized the separation of power. The envisaged independence in the workings of the arms of ...