Branches of Government
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Branches of Government
The US Constitution was created by our Founding Forefathers to be the supreme law of the United States of America. The Constitution outlines organization of the government, the relationship that the federal government has with the states, and rights of the citizens. It is vitally important to discuss why the three branches of government were created in the Constitution, each branch of government’s power, obstacles that the division of power created, and the conflict between federal versus state power, in order to understand how the power and structure of our government impacted the formation of our country today. Philosophers and the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches In 1787, America’s forefathers came together to create the most important document in history, our Constitution. Some of the Framers goals in the Constitution were to establish a government strong enough to meet the nation’s needs, to establish a government that would not threaten the existence of separate states or the liberty of the nation, and to establish a government based on popular consent (Patterson, 2009, pg. 38). There were many philosophers with different philosophies on how a government should be structured and they inputted those philosophies into the Constitution. There are five main philosophers that have impacted the government’s structure and their impact has created a balanced government. These philosophers who heavily influenced the structure of the Constitution are Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Baron De Montesquieu, and Voltaire. During the period of Enlightenment, intellects spent their time trying to inject science, logic, and human characteristics into how the people would best be served (Gahr, 2011). Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan (1651), which outlines a social contract of appropriate behaviors and e...

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