Assertion: separation | /r/HasProperty | idea
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text: As noted above, the separation of powers principle is an idea gleaned from past governments (like England, Athens, Sparta, Lycia, and Rome) and works of political philosophy (like Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws, Livy’s History of Rome, and Machiavelli’s Livy).
text: Separation of powers was an idea accepted by all sides in the American founding, though its precise meaning remained unclear--at least until its famous exposition in the Federalist, the defense of the Constitution written by "Publius," the pen name of Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.