The political theorist Charles Louis Montesquieu was born in 1689 in France and was nobility by birth. ... People must honor the monarch and each other. ... In this way no one branch of government would have a large majority of power, as King Louis XIV was working on a tyranny. ... The power centers are the legislative (which consists of one large branch and a smaller, select branch), judicial, and executive. ... Montesquieu was influential in politics and laws and has shaped society today. ...

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The political theorist Charles Louis Montesquieu was born in 1689 in France and was nobility by birth. ... People must honor the monarch and each other. ... In this way no one branch of government would have a large majority of power, as King Louis XIV was working on a tyranny. ... The power centers are the legislative (which consists of one large branch and a smaller, select branch), judicial, and executive. ... Montesquieu was influential in politics and laws and has shaped society today. ...

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Plato believed that the average person can't make good political decisions and should be left out of the decision making process. ... He believed that the power should be separated into three groups: The Counsel, The Senate, and The Tribunes. The counsel would represent the interests of the monarch, the senate would represent the interests of the aristocrats, and the tribunes would represent the interests of the people as a whole. This way advice is taken from the widest range of people without giving one group all the power. ... Locke never wanted there to be a sovereign power and that t...

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By definition, a parliament is the supreme legislative body of a major political unit that is a continuing institution comprising a series of individual gathering (Margach, 1972 p.23). ... Usually the symbolic representative of a parliament system is a monarch and in Canada's case, the Queen, through the Governor General, her representative in Canada. ... It was designed to avoid a concentration of power. ... The legislative power is the power to make laws that rule and govern the country. ... Congress holds the power of impeachment. ...

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