{"id":20370,"date":"2022-09-27T20:47:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T20:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/?p=20370"},"modified":"2023-04-13T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T22:24:08","slug":"separation-of-powers-in-a-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/separation-of-powers-in-a-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use “Separation of Powers” in a Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We, the people of the United States<\/a><\/strong>, in order to form a more perfect union…”<\/p>\n

These words are the opening lines of the preamble to the United States Constitution<\/strong>, and they’re well-recognized as a result.<\/p>\n

Grammatically speaking, there are some really interesting things going on in the Constitution.<\/p>\n

For starters, can something actually be “more perfect”? Couldn’t the founding fathers have just called the English King “worser<\/a>“?<\/p>\n

A more important concept in the U.S. Constitution is the separation of powers.<\/p>\n

Let’s talk more about this concept and the grammar behind it.<\/p>\n

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How do you use “separation of powers” in a sentence?<\/h2>\n

The phrase “separation of powers” refers to setting up checks and balances between a government’s branches by limiting what each can do to a single thing. You can use “separation of powers” in a sentence to talk about politics or metaphorically to talk about any other “distribution” of power.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The context of “separation of powers”<\/h2>\n

In its modern sense, the phrase “separation of powers” is used almost exclusively to describe how a government distributes power.<\/p>\n

You may also see this idea referred to as that of “checks and balances.”<\/p>\n

Although the idea itself is older, the modern notion of a “separation of powers” comes from Baron de Montesquieu, an 18th century philosopher who set forth the idea of separating (or “distributing”) political power between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of a government.<\/p>\n

For a refresher, here’s what those branches do:<\/p>\n