Sentences with phrase «separate branch of state government»

He doesn't control the state Controller or Attorney General's office - two other executive branch agencies - and the Legislature and Judiciary are separate branches of state government.

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Legal anarchy by the states and separate branches of the federal government is a poor solution to the problem of an overbearing Supreme Court.

«The expansive powers contained in this new language would bypass and erode the long - standing system of checks and balances embedded in the structure of separate and independent branches of government, including the legislature's role regarding the allocation of state resources,» the report said.

«Social studies teachers like me join voters across the state in taking the first steps to returning to three separate branches of government and Democracy,» Martin said.

Though the term «separation of powers» does not appear anywhere in the text of the United States Constitution, the concept of three separate but equal branches of government is one of the most important ways our government defends the liberties essential to our democracy.

«Though the term «separation of powers» does not appear anywhere in the text of the United States Constitution,» Bass wrote in the ABA Journal, «the concept of three separate but equal branches of government is one of the most important ways our government defends the liberties essential to our democracy.»