... be done by an assembly with two chambers: the upper chamber, consisting of the aristocracy and the lower chamber chosen by the people. The third branch, the judicial power, the application of law to particular situations exercised by independent judges. All of this came from an Englishman in the 1600's named John Locke. He said "that a country's founder should create a separation ... branch separate from the legislative branch because it would separate the powers of the government so no one group would have complete control. The federalists, a group of men writing newspaper essays to an...

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