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

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The Spirit of the Laws not only systematizes the foundational ideas of separation of powers and balances and checks, it provides the ...

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

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 ...

Dennis Rasmussen, Syracuse University 'Montesquieu's intellectual obsessions remain our own – including republicanism, the separation of powers, despotism, liberty, the role of women in society and ...

Montesquieu's separation of powers theory highlights the judiciary's role as a counterbalance to the executive and legislative branches, essential for safeguarding democracy. Montesquieu warns ...

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 ...

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 ...

A few colonists knew the work of the British political philosopher John Locke or the French essayist Montesquieu, especially ...

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 ...