Separation Of Power In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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Government could be influenced for lot of reasons. Sometimes it is good. Sometime it might go amiss. I think the separation of power is the most significant influence to our government, because inappropriate power allocation could destroy the government.
There was a story called Animal Farm, which I think it would be a lot of different if it put separation of power idea inside. The story is about farmer Mr. Jones and his animals. The animals bit Mr. Jones and the pig became the leader of the farm. There was an important part in the story, which is the pigs are making up the rule, but after that, they kept breaking their own rule and changing the rule to what they wanted and would be best for themselves, such as keeping the supplies or killing some other animals. I think it’s better that the legislative and judicial branches are separate, because there will be no check balance from each branches. Although in the Constitution Article one and three it had said none of the branches can interfere other any decision. …show more content…

At the time, Louis 14th was the king of England. He wrote a book called Separation of Law ridiculing the reign of Louis 14th and the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. The book tells us what he thinks about the balance between the different branches. He concludes that the best form of government was that the legislative, executive, and judicial powers shall be separated to kept each other in check and prevent any branch from becoming too powerful. Montesquieu’s thought is important because when it isn’t separate, it might slowly become “Monarchical Dictatorship”, in which the king or the leader can do whatever they want. In the US Constitution, had written “Legislative” “Executive” “Judicial” in Article one two and three. In this case, it is less chance that government become too

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