executive (Supreme Executive Council), a unicameral legislature (Assembly), an elected judiciary (Supreme Court), and the Council of Censors this group was responsible for ensuring constitutionality of the Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary branches of government and auditing taxes and could also either censure or impeach any member of government who they had found to have violated the constitution they also had the sole power to both call constitution conventions and amend the constitution See also Notes References Further reading Peter Barenboim, Biblical Roots of Separation of Powers, Moscow, Letny Sad, 2005. , Permalink: LC Catalog - Item Information (Full Record) Biancamaria Fontana (ed.), The Invention of the Modern Republic (2007) W. B. Gwyn, The Meaning of the Separation of Powers (1965) (no ISBN) Bernard Manin, Principles of Representative Government (1995; English version 1997) (hbk), (pbk) José María Maravall and Adam Przeworski (eds), Democracy and the Rule of Law (2003) (hbk), (pbk) Paul A. Rahe, Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty (2009) (hbk), (pbk) Iain Stewart, "Men of Class: Aristotle, Montesquieu and Dicey on 'Separation of Powers' and 'the Rule of Law'" 4 Macquarie Law Journal 187 (2004) Iain Stewart, "Montesquieu in England: his 'Notes on England', with Commentary and Translation" (2002) Alec Stone Sweet, Governing with Judges: Constitutional Politics in Europe (2000) Reinhold Zippelius, Allgemeine Staatslehre/Politikwissenschaft (= Political Science), 16th edition, § 31, C.H. Beck, Munich, 2010, Evan C. Zoldan, Is the Federal Judiciary Independent of Congress?, 70 Stan. L. Rev. Online 135 (2018). External links Polybius and the Founding Fathers: the separation of powers Arbitrary Government Described and the Government of the Massachusetts Vindicated from that Aspersion (1644) Constitutional law Philosophy of law Political science terminology Montesquieu