Can somebody, please, explain me this construction...? "There is no liberty, if the judiciary power BE NOT SEPARATED from the legislative and executive.

1) "subjunctive mood (plural subjunctive moods)
(grammar) Mood expressing an action or state which is hypothetical or anticipated rather than actual, including wishes and commands.
If John were here, he would know what to do.
If this be liberty, then give me death!
I wish that I were there.
I want that he go."
Source and further information:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subjunctive_mood

Further information:
"An historical syntax of the English language By Frederic Theodor Visser"
http://books.google.com/books?id=ubo3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA790&lpg=PA790&dq=conjunction+if+usage+syntax+english+subjunctive&source=bl&ots=2MqNqfpa8Z&sig=bkPftX2ZuTWebWrvoNHMHF-oRW0&hl=en&ei=9RX7SsCCMZL6_AbcitC8DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=&f=false

2) "Our founding generation were students of Baron de Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws. That 18th Century treatise articulated the threat to liberty posed by government and attempted to deal with it by separating the powers of government into competing branches. Montesquieu posited, “There is no liberty, if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and executive. Were it joined with the legislative, the life and the liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control…” "
Source and further information:
http://www.justicesanders.com/ElectingIndependentJudiciary.htm

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