Did you Know?
The United States Constitution which is the supreme law of the land set out to create a Republic which is a government by the people and for the people. Supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected officials.

Separation of Powers is a system in which our three branches of the government would have defined abilities to check the powers of the other branches.  The three branches are:

• Legislative
• Executive
• Judicial

This philosophy heavily influenced the writing of the United States Constitution in which each of the branches are to be kept in distinct order to prevent an abuse of power.