What were the reasons our forefathers divided the government into the legislative, judicial, and presidential?

Question

What were the reasons our forefathers divided the government into the legislative, judicial, and presidential?

Answer 1

The reason to divide into these 3 branches is because if they were all one, the nature of mankind, to combine and one emerge victorious as a dictator would cause competition. In one branch, there would be much competition in which one person would win and rule through a totalitarian regime. The four fathers were destined to prevent this, allowing this nation to hold unity through a democratic government. Since they are all seperate branch, each one checks on one other, system of checks and balances, which helps to keep order and purge any thoughts of dictatorship.

Answer 2

To provide a balance of power, that no one person or group would wield too much power.  As we have seen in Washington D.C. in recent years, when one party controls both the Congress and Executive branches of government,  They can get by with nearlly anything.

Answer 3

short answer:  checks and balances

so each branch could check the actions of the other branches and avoid totalitarian dictators (like CheneyBush)

Answer 4

Primarily to provide "checks and balances" so that  no one branch could become superior to the others.