Importance Of Separation Of Powers In The Government

Our government would most likely fail without separation of powers. Separation of powers is an idea, which keeps the government in balance. It divides the government into 3 branches, Executive, Judicial, and Legislative. The three branches are supposed to work together through separation of powers and checks and balances; which makes sure, a single branch keeps within their range of power by giving the other branch the power to balance it out. The Separation of powers is very important to the founders who wrote the constitution and to present day where it is still very much needed. The founders of the constitution used the separation of powers to prevent tyranny. They did not approve of the tyrant that they had as their current leader and did not want the same thing to happen to their country. They also used checks and balances, which also limits the branch's power because they now have to check with the other branches before they can use their powers. Checks and balances works a little like this; the executive branch can veto congressional legislation and nominates the judges for the Supreme Court, the legislative branch approves presidential nominations, can pass over the president’s veto and can remove him or her from …show more content…
A recent issue that comes up with separation of powers is Patient Protection and Affordable care Act also referred to as obamacare because the president was attempting to start the act, which the executive and legislative branches had fights over. The president tried to pass the act but the legislative did not want the president passing laws because that was against the spearation of powers. In the separation of powers it is the legislative to creat and pass the laws and the executive power to veto the laws that the legislative creates. Even if they are not reaching for power the lines set in the separation of powers were