This system is called the Checks and Balance System
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The three branches of the United States government are the Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch, and the Judiciary Branch. The system of checks and balances keeps the power of each branch under control in relation to the others.
two ways that one branch gain too much power! Checks and balances, and they are all equal.
The farmers included a system of check and balances into the constitution because they believed that each branch of government can exercise checks, or controls, over the other branches. Not the FARMERS, man!
So that no one branch of the government has total control
The idea that government was not all powerful had become an accepted part of the English system by the time the first colonies were founded in the New World. The idea first appeared in the Magna Carta, also known as the Great Charter, that King John signed in 1215. It established the principle of limited government, in which the power of the King, or government, was limited and not absolute. Limited government is also found in the US Constitution. The Constitutional Convention developed the system of federalism, which insures limited government on a national basis.