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by TrnsltLife 30 days ago
Separation of powers is what I was thinking too.

That Soviet constitution (like all communist movements that I know of) sounds utopian and unrealistic.

The American Framers, many coming from a worldview that saw humans as inherently sinful and corruptable, built as many safeguards into the system as possible to prevent that human nature from running unchecked.