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At the national level, the framers divided power between the three branches of government—the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judicial branch. This process of dividing power between different branches of government is called the separation of powers.
At the national level, the Framers divided power between the three branches of government—the legislative branch, the executive branch and the judicial branch. This process of dividing power between different branches of government is called the separation of powers.
One great achievement of the American founding was the creation of an effective constitutional structure of political institutions. Two important aspects of the U.S. Constitution—federalism and the separation of powers—represent, in part, the framers’ efforts to divide governmental power.
This is the secret of how the United States has made the separation of powers effective: the framers made it self-enforcing by giving each branch of government the means to participate in, and partially or temporarily obstruct, the workings of the other branches.
Thus, in order to preserve individual liberty, the Framers sought to ensure that a separate and independent branch of the Federal Government would exercise each of government’s three basic functions: legislative, executive, and judicial. 2 Footnote
To separate these powers, the Framers, in the first three Articles of the Constitution, vested the legislative powers in a Congress; 5. the executive power in a President; 6. and the judicial power of the United States in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. 7.
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There are several reasons why the writers of the Constitution wanted to have a separation of powers for our new government. One reason had to do with our experience as British colonies.
