When you think of branching what do you think of? Trees, Plants, or Bushes? I doubt branches of government came to mind. Well its true, our government is separated into three distinct branches. The three branches are the Executive branch, Legislative branch, and the Judicial Branch. Each branch has their separate job and responsibilities. They also have to be sure that not one branch will get too much power. The founding fathers of the United States “in order to form a more perfect union” established a three-branch form of government that separated the powers with the ratification of the constitution in 1789. The three-branch form of government originated from the Virginia Plan which proposed a strong central government composed of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. The constitution of the United States of America outlines an independent Legislative Branch in Article I, an independent Executive / Presidential Branch in Article II, and an independent Judicial Branch in Article III. The articles define in detail the authority, the compilation, the rules of engagement, the interaction, and various other aspects of how these three specific branches of government should be divided. Men who had experienced the dictatorships of Europe and had escaped from its grasp established the constitution. They sought to establish a form of government that would never allow a dictatorship or tyrant ruler to hold power over the people like in the places they had fled. With their creation of th...