... single, centralised government. From the reconciliation between Federalist and Anti-Federalist doctrine, there emerged an adapted version of the separation of powers, each branch relating to the other two via a system of checks and balances. While one might suppose that safe-guarding the freedom of the individual states would heavily influence policy when it came to protecting the individual's liberty, this presumption happened to back-fire when confronted with the liberalist doctrine that permitted only minimal interference with civil society2 (as Johnson and Roosevelt happened to discover). The separation of powers that lies anchored deep inside the American Constitution, protects the individual in the sense that the braches of governement control each other, in order to prevent abuse of power. There is no melting of executive and legislative as in the UK where members of the Queen's cabinet also sit in Parliament. "No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which ...

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