An Analysis into the functions of political institutions in Public Law

Submitted Assignment from the year 2024 in the subject Law - Public Law / Administrative Law, grade: 1st, , course: Postgraduate Diploma in Public Law, language: English, abstract: The separation of powers is one of the most fundamental doctrines in constitutional law. It's there to ensure that the three branches of government provide the necessary checks and balances, thereby ensuring that the executive is held to account. James Corbett's discussion around this doctrine aims to uncover not only how these three branches keep a check on the state but why this is so important. There is much focus on the role of the judiciary as one of the three branches and at how it keeps the government in check. It was not so long ago that the courts were headed by the government as one source of power but now, in recent years since it's been made independent of government this in itself shows just how far the constitution has adjusted itself so that it can uphold this separation and keep all governments to account. To deny this separation would mean replacing it with an ultimate source of power, which, if it was ever allowed to exist once more, would only be to deny democracy. Political institutions are, therefore, in place to make sure that a separation exists and that the government is properly held to account in a democratic state