POLITICAL SCIENCE COURSEWORK THE SEPARATION OF POWERS It has proved true, historically, that there is a natural tendency of governments to assume as much power as possible. To prevent this from happening in the United States, the framers of the Constitution divided the functions of the federal government among three branches: the executive branch, legislature or the lawmaking branch and the judiciary. These should be separate and enjoy equal power and independence. This separation of …showed first 75 words of 3365 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3365 total…to prevent this from happening is to have each officeholder hold some power over other officeholders. But this is not complete in the American political system, as we have seen the ability of different parts of the political system are able to check one another, i.e. the government can veto a bill from congress, congress can impeach the President. Therefore I conclude that the separation of powers in the American political system is incomplete.