The branches of government are an enormous part of our country's system, but it did not magically appear. Our founding fathers began the process of creating our government with the Articles of Confederation; that were created in 1781 by the Continental Congress. This was constructed so there would not be a strong national government because of the terror of tyranny. There were many complications; such as the states were very powerful and continually undermined the national government. This led to the revision in 1787 which would hopefully give the national government more power that would be feasible. The idea of having separation of powers was finalized during those summer meetings since "Madison wrote, “The accumulation of all powers, legislative,
