Theory of Separation of Powers

Your college has a Principal, a Discipline Committee and an Exam Cell, and nobody wants one person running all three — the person who frames the rule should not also be the one deciding your punishment and marking your paper. Government has the same worry, at a much larger scale. Why do we insist that the body that makes a law is not the same body that enforces it or judges it?

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The theory of Separation of Powers says the legislative, executive and judicial functions of the State should be held by three distinct organs, so that no single body accumulates all of it.

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