Talk:Executive (government)
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In British and British-connected usage, that is just precisely what the term "government" means - there are no other branches, and those things are not only less deliberately separated, they aren't called "government" at all in ordinary usage. PML.
The CIA World Factbook does in fact list 3 seperate branches of government for the UK. The level of seperation might still be less than in countries with younger political systems. Even so the original wording seems to be based on american revolutionary propaganda from 3-4 centuries ago, and might not be entirely correct anymore after so much time has passed ;-) Edited for NPOVness. Kim Bruning 12:46, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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Under the doctrine of the separation of powers, the executive is...
Hopefully this should make clear that the idea comes from one particular theory of government.
(8 April)
I've moved the page to bring it into line with the way the other two branches are named. Redirects have been fixed (9 April). Iota | talk
