What are the 3 branches of government? Why do you think the founding fathers created this separation of powers?

The three branches of government are the executive, legislative, and judicial. they created the separation of powers because they didn't want to give an individual branch all of the power, so they split the power among the 3 branches evenly.

The three branches of the U. S. government are the legislative, executive and judicial branches. According to the doctrine of separation of powers, the U. S. Constitution distributed the power of the federal government among these three branches, and built a system of checks and balances to ensure that no one branch could become too powerful.