law-interpreting

Updated: June 5, 2025

The Constitution of 1791, as it was called, provided, like the American constitution, for the "separation of powers," that is, that the law- making, law-enforcing, and law-interpreting functions of government should be kept quite distinct as the legislative, executive, and judicial departments, and should each spring, in last analysis, from the will of the people.

Carlton J. H. Hayes - A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.