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Sep 12th, 2017 3 min read
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Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow
Hans von Spakovsky is an authority on a wide range of issues including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration. The Constitution gives limited powers to the national government, and reserves the remaining power of government to the independent, sovereign states of the Union. iStock
The Framers recognized both the benefits and the dangers of an efficient national government. To mitigate the danger, they divvied up power among three branches of government, the principle we call separation of powers.
It was genius and the arrangement they came up with remains the gold standard for how governing should occur.