"We are running a system of separation of powers.

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We tend to think of the separation of powers doctrine as necessary for the security and liberty of the individual ? don't we?

我们倾向于,将分权原理想成是,个人安全与自由的必备条件,不是吗？

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Lord Griffiths called for primary law-making powers and for a formal separation of powers between the executive (the assembly government) and the legislature (the assembly).

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The Senate was designed, as part of the separation of powers, to check the impulses of the House and the popular will.

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But there is a point beyond which it is his responsibility, as steward of the executive branch, to the American people and to future Presidents and future administrations, to retain the constitutionally enshrined separation of powers, to retain the capacity of the executive branch to deliberate and consult internally so that it can appropriately and independently respond to inquiries like this.

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