The three separate branches limit one another through a series of checks and balances. The framers wanted to make sure that the branches were equally powerful, so they set up rules that enable each branch to stop the others from doing some things.
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The founding fathers limited the powers of each branch of government so one doesn't get powerful. If one got too powerful it could lead to a dictatorship, which none of them wanted.
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