The "speech or debate" clause is a basic protection of members of Congress in a government of separated powers.

Ours is a Constitution of separated powers.

Your recent letter references your office's "profound respect for the Presidency in our system of separated powers."

It stipulates the separated powers of the state (executive, legislative and judicial), the citizens' rights and duties, financial affairs and other constitutional regulations.

Discusses the constitutional history of separated and shared powers as shaped in the republic and empire of ancient Rome.

It implements the checking aspect of the separated power.

They all separated political powers.

When we undertake to judge a judge according to political, rather than legal, criteria, we have stripped the judicial office of all that makes it a distinct separated power.

The law "may well be with us longer than most anyone would wish," it added, but "in our system of separated powers, it is for the Congress, not the courts, to jettison outdated statutes."

He concluded, "The very core of liberty secured by our Anglo-Saxon system of separated powers has been freedom from indefinite imprisonment at the will of the executive."