The main establishments of law in industrialised countries are independent courts, consultant parliaments, an accountable govt, the army and police, bureaucratic organisation, the authorized occupation and civil society itself. John Locke, in his Two Treatises of Government, and Baron de Montesquieu in The Spirit of the Laws, advocated for a separation of powers between the political, legislature and executive our bodies. Their precept was that no particular person ought to be in a position to usurp all powers of the state, in contrast to the absolutist principle of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. Sun Yat-sen’s Five Power Constitution for the Republic of…
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