Answer:
Framers recognized both the benefits and the dangers of an efficient national government. To mitigate the danger, they divvied up power among three branches of government, the principle we call separation of powers.
It was genius—and the arrangement they came up with remains the gold standard for how governing should occur.
Having just fought a long war against what they considered a tyrannical government, the men at the Constitutional Convention were keen to prevent the establishment of what they termed “a democratic tyranny.”