Separation of powersSeparation of powers is the principle in which the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government are three independent and coequal branches of government.
This was made in order to prevent one branch of government from becoming too powerful. Early Americans did not to be ruled by a monarchy, so they created 'Separation of Powers' to avoid the monarch that they had once endured under British rule. "In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: The judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men." --Part of the First, Article XXX
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