Separation Of Power: Checks And Balances

The separation of powers is a system of joint power also known as Checks and Balances. This lead to creating three branches to our constitution, which are The Legislative branch made up of the House and Senate, the Executive branch made up of the President and vice president and the judicial branch, which is made up of the federal and the supreme courts. Separation of powers therefore, refers to the division of government responsibilities into individual branches to limit any one branch from taking the primary roles of another . Each of these branches has certain powers they are able to convey but each of these powers are restricted, or checked by another branch. For example, the President chooses judges and secretaries in different departments,
By compelling the different branches to be responsible to the others, no one branch can have enough power to become dominate and carry all the power within one branch. The Constitution does not simply say that the powers of the federal government should be separated. James Madison, in his original draft of what would become the Bill of Rights, included a proposed amendment that would make the separation of powers clear, but his proposal was rejected and this was because his associated members of Congress thought the separation of powers to be already implied in the structure of government under the Constitution. That this was obviously going to run in that manner, which it didn’t have to be explicitly written out. They came to the conclusion that Madison’s amendment would be dismissed and terminated . Separation of powers aims to serve several goals, separation avoids concentration of power which is seen as the root of tyranny and domination and provides each branch with enough say and power to be able to fight off any attack by the other two branches. As James Madison argued in the Federalist Papers said, "Ambition