The Doctrine of separation of power and its Requisite Check and Balance
The Doctrine of separation of power and its Requisite Check and Balance Bhakti Ram Ghimire Advocate 0977-9851044189 Introduction: The government is universally accepted to be a necessity since men cannot fully realize himself his creativity, his dignity and his whole personality except with an ordered society. [1] Yet the necessity for government creates its own problem of how to limit the arbitrariness inherent in government, and to ensure that these powers are to be used for the good of society [2] . It is the limiting of the arbitrariness of political powers that is expressed in the concept of constitutionalism. Constitutionalism recognizes the necessity for the government but insists upon a limitation being placed upon its powers by way of dividing the government powers into their three constituent functions, and under three arms. Thus constitutionalism connotes in essence a limitation of government powers through the doctrine of sep...