[throwaway1249]

Agreed that the article is extremely opinionated. Separation of powers contains a lot of very subtle and non-obvious answers to society's fundamental organizacional sociology.

Particularly noticeable with regards to this subject is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._78 where Hamilton posits that the Judicial power is the most frail one: with the executive holding the military power and the congress holding the money.