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John Locke, in his Two Treatises of Government, and Baron de Montesquieu in The Spirit of the Laws, advocated for a separation of powers between the political, legislature and executive bodies. Their precept was that no particular person should have the power to usurp all powers of the state, in contrast to the absolutist concept of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. Sun Yat-sen’s Five Power Constitution for the Republic of China took the separation of powers additional by having two extra branches of government—a Control Yuan for auditing oversight and an Examination Yuan to manage the employment of public officials. Get the…