... as having a government that is regulated by rules that can be partly legal and partly non - legal, and therefore holds similar characteristics with both the Irish and American documents . Although the rules in the government of the UK have not been codified, the British try to maintain a pragmatic image and they do so by keeping similar conceptions to the American constitutional approach. The term 'sources of government' may lead us to investigate the functions of the government not excluding the participants involved in the political sphere. The three most significant branches of government are re-called as the executive, legislative and the judicial - otherwise known as the separation of powers. In these separation of powers a sort of responsibility is conferred upon each organ of government and the aim behind this is to limit power; most importantly to create checks and balances on the exercise of ...

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