This reading guide can be used to support reading of Yuval Levin's essay, The Separation of Powers, from the America at 250 Civic Toolkit.
In this essay, Dr. Yuval Levin explores why the U.S. Constitution divides power among three branches of government and why that division is never perfectly clean. Drawing on the ideas of Madison, Montesquieu, and Aristotle, Levin shows how the constant tension between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches is not a flaw, but a strength. This reading guide will help you follow his argument, understand the history behind it, and think about how separation of powers protects liberty today.
