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Page 91
... SEPARATION OF FEDERAL POWERS The framers of the Constitution accepted as an unchal- lengeable maxim that the only way to avoid governmen- tal tyranny is to put the legislative , executive , and judi- cial powers in separate departments ...
... SEPARATION OF FEDERAL POWERS The framers of the Constitution accepted as an unchal- lengeable maxim that the only way to avoid governmen- tal tyranny is to put the legislative , executive , and judi- cial powers in separate departments ...
Page 113
... separation of these sediments , as dated by microfossils , suggests a sea - floor spreading rate of about two centimetres per year . According to the sea - floor spreading hypothesis , the ocean floor is a thin rind on the upper mantle ...
... separation of these sediments , as dated by microfossils , suggests a sea - floor spreading rate of about two centimetres per year . According to the sea - floor spreading hypothesis , the ocean floor is a thin rind on the upper mantle ...
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... separation . In the Babylonian and Maori ver- sions of this myth , actual warfare takes place as a result of the separation . Over against the primordial union of the world parents , there is the desire for knowledge and a different ...
... separation . In the Babylonian and Maori ver- sions of this myth , actual warfare takes place as a result of the separation . Over against the primordial union of the world parents , there is the desire for knowledge and a different ...
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