"separation of authority" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the division of power and responsibilities among different branches or levels of government, organizations, or individuals. Example: The principle of separation of authority is a key aspect of a democratic government, ensuring that no one person or group has too much control.
He called for a "real and effective civil police" and "separation of authorities" in the Palestinian government.
In this period, decisive elements of early modern toleration discourse were formed: the distinction between church authority and individual religious conscience on the one hand and the separation of religious and secular authority on the other.
Mr. Paterson's move to appoint Mr. Ravitch, which came in the midst of a political stalemate that left the State Senate paralyzed for more than a month, immediately raised constitutional questions over separation of powers and executive authority.
Although the Protestant Reformation, in its rejection of clerical celibacy, its affirmation of the vocation of the laity, and its separation of temporal and spiritual authority, resolved the contradiction between the spirit and the flesh that was characteristic of medieval Catholicism, Feuerbach argues, it failed to resolve the contradiction between faith and reason, or theology and philosophy.
Other late changes included the separation of the proposed Bury/Rochdale authority (retained from the Redcliffe-Maud report) into the Metropolitan Borough of Bury and the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale.
The resulting separation of political loyalty and central authority led to a decline in the government's ability to impose its will.
For example, the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the separation of powers have the same authority status.
His disagreements with the Pope led to his separation of the Church of England from papal authority, with himself, as King, as the Supreme Head of the Church of England, and to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
*** In most cases, separation walls are imposed, usually by some sort of authority, and usually against the wishes of some, if not all, affected inhabitants.
Within the Constitution's separation-of-powers structure, few exercises of judicial power are as legitimate or as necessary as the responsibility to hear challenges to the authority of the Executive to imprison a person.
