what does the term "seperation of pwers" refer to?

Answer 1

you spelled powers wrong

Answer 2

It refers to the checks and balances between the three branches of the U.S. government, the executive branch, made up of the president, the vice president, the administration, etc, the legislative brach, congress, seperated into Senate and House of Representatives, and the judicial branch, made up of all the courts in the country, through rankings, with the U.S. Supreme Court at a higher authority than all the other courts, then working their way down through smaller and smaller courts. By sepearting the powers, the foundign fathers believed that we could have a king or a dictator, because another branch of the government owuld have the power to limit the othe branch's power, goign in a big cycle and hopefully achieving fairness and justice. Hope I helped.

Answer 3

Seperation of Power if Your speaking of the US Government is the Check and Balances of the Senate, Congress and The President. If things are running correctly No 1 part of our Government will become Total Control no matter what party is in the majority.... Congress can't run our country, Niether can the Senate or the President... However our President does hold special powers no one else has such as pardening people starting a war up to a point....

Answer 4

It means that all government power is not concentrated in a single individual or small group. The powers are instead dispersed or split up between different branches of govt, hence separated.

The most common reason to disperse or separated is so the each branch can prevent the other from (re)gaining too much power. This is the concept of checks (limits) and balances, with each branch holding some of the total govt power, and each branch being able to exert certain limits on the other branches.

The US model, split between legislative, judicial and executive, is just one of the many possible ways powers can be split/separated.

Answer 5

Separation of power means no one person or one group within a government can do anything they wish without some sort of check and balance.

In the model of U.S. government, there are three branches: legislative (congress), executive (the president) and judicial (court system) that suppose to provide this check and balance.

However, when one group of similar minded people dominating all three branches the model no longer provide the supposed check and balance we need. But this is to be reserved for another question.

Answer 6

the three branches are segregated into separate spheres of government power: essentially - legislature creates law, executive passes and enforces law and judiciary interprets law.

of course there's a lot more to it than that.

hint: it has absoultely zero, nada to do with the separation of church and state. some people can give me a thumbs down if you like, but you're still wrong about this.

Answer 7

Separation of the three branches of government- Administrative, Congress, and Judicial.

Answer 8

It means all the branches in government have their own powers that affect bills and laws.

Answer 9

the 3 branches ogf government

legislature - makes the laws
judicial - interprets the laws
executive - enforces the laws

Answer 10

Several things....

1...seperation of church and state....

2 Three branches of government....Legilative, executive, judicial....Each branch has a different job and there are systems of checks and balances between them

Answer 11

It means to separate the powers.