Even now you have debates in the United States about how to divide power between the federal, state and city governments.

It divides power between the states and the Federal Government, but without precision.

Constitutions usually explicitly divide power between various branches of government.

"I believe this is something inevitable when it comes down to dividing power," she said.

They divided power in the federal government, so that one branch could check another if it grew too mighty.

These were devices to divide official power and hem it in.

And they divided power over the new system between the governor, the city's schools chancellor and the mayor, but never held any of them accountable.

The Christian democrats were truly democratic, they divided power up.

While progress has been made, there is apparently none in the critical matter of how to divide power in a shared government.

The traditional legal model divides power within the company between the directors and the shareholders.