Идеи разделения властей в трудах Д. Локка и Ш. Монтескье

The presented article substantiates the role and significance of the separation of powers in modern society and the state, consisting in the fact that this concept represents an instrument of limiting state power in order to protect the rights and interests of individual rights. As a rule, the separation of powers is opposed to the concept of autocracy, the concentration of power in the hands of one person or body. The author recognizes the theory of separation of powers ideologically related to the political legacy of Locke and Montesquieu and notes that the genesis of the theory of separation of powers is associated with the emergence of bourgeois political and legal theories, primarily in England in the XVII century, whose most authoritative political thinker was D. Locke. However, the classical formulation of this theory has received in the writings of the great French philosopher, lawyer and educator Charles Louis Montesquieu. In article are analyzed the features of the original doctrines of separation of powers of these eminent thinkers, the first addition to the concept of a democratically organized state, the optimal organization of the system of state authorities