America and has been since our founders made “The Separation of Powers”. The separation of powers is a key reason to why our government is so strong. When the separation of powers was first created it immediately became essential to how we ran things.
Nothing has changed about how important it is, it is still just as important as when it was written. The separation of powers divides the government into three branches keeping us balanced and stopping us from living under one leader or one group of people. if one person or group tried to take charge of our country with two much power they would be stopped because of the separation of powers. It has been doing that since the very first day it was written by our founding fathers. This is such a strong and useful law that is still working hundreds of years after it was originally made. All of the …show more content…
No matter how good the rules are always people who try and break them. There have been people in the past and even people now that try and obtain more power then they are allowed to have by law. As those people did try, they did not succeed because of something called the checks and balances. The check and balances stops someone that is trying to gain power through laws. Someone who has power could make any law that would benefit them only if the checks and balances were not in act. It has been stopping people from having too much power since it was written and that’s why it’s so