According to the lawyer and philosopher Montesquieu, who lived in the 1700s, there has to be a legislative, an executive and a judiciary power in a country, if it is not to turn into a dictatorship, and those three powers must be independent of one another. The three powers must be separate in terms of actual functions, as well as in terms of who perform those functions. No person may exercise more than one of the three powers. | According to the lawyer and philosopher Montesquieu, who lived in the 1700s, there has to be a legislative, an executive and a judiciary power in a country, if it is not to turn into a dictatorship, and those three powers must be independent of one another. The three powers must be separate in terms of actual functions, as well as in terms of who perform those functions. No person may exercise more than one of the three powers. |