Democracy and the Division of Powers

The division of powers is typically viewed as a principle that formalises and restricts the existing political rule through law. Christoph Möllers opposes this ultimately pre-democratic viewpoint with a concept that foregrounds the political, democracy-facilitating significance of the division of sovereign rule into three separate powers. Focussing on the central aspect of the democratic organisation of rule, this leads to new insights into the concept of democracy, into the relationship between law and politics, into the inherent legitimation of legal forms, and into the applicability of the scheme of the division of powers to realms outside of the state.