Checks and Balances

The reason the founding fathers set up three separate but co-equal branches of government is that they understood that their were certain people that would get in power who would try to eliminate this separation and abuse the limits of their power.

Checks and balances means no one party or belief trumps all others. You arrive at decisions as a consensus. This prevents radicalism in any one direction. Sadly, there has been very little checking or balancing the last seven years, just a lot of moving to the right. Just remember what kind of government you get when you move all the way to the right.