Why do you have different branches in your government?

Answer 1

The executive branch is the Presidential branch that establishes the laws, the Legistlative is the senate branch that interprets the laws and filters them through, and the Judicial branch enforces the laws. These three branches were established in an effort to equally divide up the nations power, and they maintain certain checks and balances over each other. They maintain order over each other to keep things equal in our government.

Answer 2

It was important to the men who wrote the Constitution that they form a government that did not allow one person or group of people to have too much control. While under the rule of the British king they learned that this could be a bad system. Yet government under the Articles of Confederation taught them that there was a need for a strong centralized government. With this in mind, the framers wrote the Constitution to provide for three separate, but equally powerful, branches of government: the Legislative Branch (which writes the laws); the Executive Branch (which carries out the laws); and the Judicial Branch (which reviews the way laws are applied). The separation of powers allows for a system of checks and balances within the government. Each branch is given certain control over the other two, which balances the power and keeps the potential for abuse of power in check.