The system of checks and balances. The Legislative Branch can write legislation. The Executive Branch can veto laws passed by the Legislative Branch. The Legislative Branch can override the veto. The Judicial Branch can rule on the constitutionality of laws. The Executive Branch appoints important judges. The appointments have to be approved by the Legislative Branch.
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The Framers structured the government in this way to prevent one branch of government from becoming too powerful, and to create a system of checks and balances. Under this system of checks and balances, there is an interplay of power among the three branches.
The powers of government are divided to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful. This prevents the United States government from becoming a dictatorship.
The U.S is a Republic. The system of checks and balancesallows each branch to prevent the other branches from gaining too much power.
The writers of the Constitution wanted to stop any one person or branch from becoming too powerful, so the divided the central government into three branches. They also made a system of checks and balances, so each form of government would have an equal amount of power.
The founding fathers separated the power to make, enforce, and interpret laws between different branches of government in order to prevent government becoming tyrannical.