The framers of the Constitution feared too much centralized power, adopting the philosophy of divide and conquer. At the national level, they created three different branches of government to ...

The framers of the Constitution designed a system of government in 1787 that distributed power among three branches—legislative, executive, and judicial. Having just overthrown a king ...

The Constitution describes the duties and obligations of the three branches of federal government – legislative, executive and judicial – and the rights of the federal government and the states.