Critics and political foes argued that this violated the separation of powers principle and threatened the checks and balances guaranteed in the state constitution.

Moreover, this intrusion would, under certain circumstances, violate constitutional separation of powers principles.

Those means do not violate any basic separation of powers principle.

The court also rebuffed Mr. Jefferson's claim that the search violated separation of powers principles.

She added that "we necessarily reject the government's assertion that separation of powers principles mandate a heavily circumscribed role for the courts in such circumstances."

That litigious urge coincided with the Supreme Court's trend toward enforcing the Constitution's separation of powers principle.

Would a court order for the Hartford region violate the separation of powers principle by overriding the statewide integration law, whose constitutionality has not been challenged?

That would certainly represent a major breach of the separation of powers principle.

These justifications are grounded in the separation of powers principle in a constitutional and prudential sense.

Allegedly, an absolute veto was in the "spirit" of 1814 and the separation of powers principle.