Vin Suprynowicz often complains about decay in the separation of state powers, particularly about public school teachers (and other employees of the executive branch) holding part-time legislative office; today’s column is on that subject, and the link ought to be up any minute now.

Various Anglosphere constitutions specify a threefold division, legislative – judicial – executive; I wonder whether other cultures have a similar concept but a different notion of the natural cleavage. Dan Goodman, though he has since forgotten it, once imagined a culture where institutions are classified by the length of their time-horizon.