Branches of the United States Government

Branches of the United States Government

The Constitution of the United States of America was devised by our forefathers to guard the people’s rights; also the Constitution had safeguards to ensure that the government would operate properly.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” (U.S. Constitution, 1788).

The words from the preamble state clearly the reasons the Constitution was established by our forefathers. In our Constitution there is a system that calls for the separation of power; the reason(s) this was necessary was that in the midst of the Revolution the colonists wanted to form a more perfect Government, free from tyrannical power. The Articles of Confederation was the precursor to the Constitution; it outlined various articles that provided for national legislation modeled on the Continental Congress. The steps were being put in place to decentralize the power of the Government, and that helped encourage the people to think of the Government as their own.

The Constitution is a set of