How Did Baron De Montesquieu Separation Of Power

Baron de Montesquieu, an Enlightenment thinker in the early 1700’s, created the idea of “Separation of Powers”, which stated each government is separated into three forms of government: executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Each branch creates a set of checks and balances, meaning every branch must check the other two branches. Checking each branch maintains equal power between branches, providing a way to counteract decisions which are either unjust or unconstitutional by law. If both the government and U.S. Constitution don’t agree on an answer regarding particular issue, it must then be passed through state legislation. To introduce information stated by law, we must understand how the law was created, and how the ideals, stated in the text, exemplify problems relating to its flawed human society. …show more content…
These ideas questioned the British government and were influenced by earlier “philosophes”, arguing Britain was wrong, and the American people had been wronged and unrepresented by the government which ruled them. In fighting these ideals and the acts the British government enacted itself to do (taxation without justification), the colonists created a set of ideas of freedom, separation, and regulation through three subsections of government. After winning the Revolutionary War, our forefathers created a set of laws separating government into three branches to prevent tyranny, and to form a thriving government, but although logical in its broad statement, flaws remain in the