EU member states still cannot agree about end-to-end encryption

Re:EU member states still cannot agree about end-to-end encr... by zoobab on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:08AM (#37912349)

"They are appointed by the elected(the governments of the countries and the European Parliament, which are all elected)."

The executive (governments) should not become legislators, under the principle of seperation of powers of Montesquieu.

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Re:EU member states still cannot agree about end-to-end encr... by dragonwriter on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:18AM (#37912407)

> The executive (governments) should not become legislators, under the principle of seperation of powers of Montesquieu.

What if Montesquieu was just wrong and systems with fused or subordinated executive and legislative powers actually just work better in pretty much every way that separation-of-powers systems?

Yeah, the US unusually strongly applies Montesquieu in its Constitutional design, but the US isn't particularly well-governed among modern democracies. (Personally, I think the dominance of poor electoral methods and the resulting partisan duopoly is a bigger effect than separation of powers here, but...)

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