Duke College College Of Law

The major institutions of law in industrialised international locations are impartial courts, representative parliaments, an accountable executive, the military and police, bureaucratic organisation, the legal profession and civil society itself. John Locke, in his Two Treatises of Government, and Baron de Montesquieu in The Spirit of the Laws, advocated for a separation of powers between the political, legislature and government bodies. Their precept was that no particular person should be capable of usurp all powers of the state, in contrast to the absolutist concept of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. Sun Yat-sen’s Five Power Constitution for the …