# Separation of powers

`kaal:entity:separation-of-powers`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `separation-of-powers`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 3 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3782193-037](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782193-037) [mechanism/argued] -- The separation of powers works because it makes each branch's power derive from the others, harnessing the natural human competitive impulse to stop any branch from usurping power not enumerated in the Constitution, which is what the checks and balances prevent.
  > In the cyclical system, the powers of each branch derive from the others. The natural human competitive impulse is har- nessed to prevent any branch from usurping power not enumerated in the Constitu- tion, the checks and balances to prevent centralization of power.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193
- [3782205-025](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782205-025) [design/asserted] -- Decentralized governance design must address all three branches: executive governance as automated policing, legislative governance as non-automated protocol development, and judicial governance as both automated and non-automated dispute resolution.
  > Executive (automated policing), legislative (non-automated protocol de- velopment), and judicial (both automated and non-automated dispute resolution) governance must be considered.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Eight Institutions for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782205
- [3782214-011](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782214-011) [design/argued] -- A decentralized network needs a constitution that separates powers into a legislative system which updates the constitution, an executive system which enforces it, and a judicial system which resolves the disputes that inevitably arise.
  > We need a constitution which outlines the powers of the legislative, executive, and judicial sys- tems of the decentralized network. The legislative system updates the constitution itself. The executive system enforces the constitution. The judicial system handles in- evitable disputes.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Governance (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782214

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