Lest we Americans forget, today is July 4th, the day to commemorate the birth of this nation.
This country was and is an experiment by the Founding Fathers to establish a perfect government. They did so by dividing the power of the government between the three branches of government: the executive, legislative and judicial. Ordinarily, this power would have been held by the king, the supreme ruler. The obvious advantage to this system is to eliminate the power of government from being wielded by a single individual. The disadvantage is very apparent as well when we see the government get bogged down by political maneuvers between the president and certain members of the legislative branch.
