Separation of powers, the act of separating the powers of the government with the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, guards against tyranny by giving each each branch a specific job. There are three branches of government: legislative, lawmakers, judicial, interpreters of the law, and executive, the law enforcement branch. The branches help prevent tyranny by separating the government's power and evening out one another’s abilities. The legislative branch can make a law and if deemed unconstitutional, the executive branch can veto it. James Madison once said, “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may
