How do separation of powers hinder the government?
Separation of powers hinders the actions of government by reviewing, slowing, or even stopping them. This, however, is the point. Gridlock is a natural state of a government with separation of powers, since each branch can check the other and hinder the other if government action is felt to be improper. This theory uses human ambition to restrain other human ambition. After all, some feel that the less government the better, and this idea is part of separation of powers. Without separation of powers, the unified system easily becomes tyrannical: dictatorships are efficient, but not very desireable.
