The Importance Of Separation Of Powers In The United States

The separation of powers is the way our government is structured. It’s structured in three different divisions: the legislative, judicial, and executive. Each in its own way keeps the other in check, which is called checks and balances. Each branch has its own responsibility. The executive branch is our president. He enforces the laws. The judicial branch is the Supreme Court, reviews laws and decided cases involving the state, and last but not least theirs the legislative branch which is the House of Representatives and congress, makes laws, pass laws and manage bills. The president can veto the bill, but the house has to see it too, and they can revoke his veto. As you can see each branch of government has its own unique part in making our laws for our country. Which is why the …show more content…
Each one had their own views on the way a government should be formed. The founders took that to light and decided to make a government that had some parts of each philosopher thinking on government in it. The reason the separation of powers was so important to our founders was because they were making our government in such a way no one ever had before and they wanted it to be perfect because they didn’t want a monarchy, they wanted something that the people could control so that the government couldn’t just raise the taxes all of a sudden. The separation of powers is what shapes our government to what it is today and without it we would just be another monarchy. The separation of powers isn’t always perfect, there are some issues about it like sometimes the three branches don’t always agree on a bill. Congress may love it, but the president and the house may hate it so they both veto agenst it and then congress tries to fight it and it may take years to pass this one bill. One real life situation that was relatively recent is Obama