Aims Flashcards
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Four Aims:
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- avoid a concentration of public power in one body/institution, as this could lead to tyranny and a dictatorship
- provide a system of checks and balances, each of the three branches has their own powers to check the action of the other branches
- provide an efficient government
- safeguard the independence of the judiciary, judicial power is the weakest of the three governmental powers. lord steyn argued that it is the least dangerous department, as it can be overridden by parliament because courts accept legislative supremacy
