This political cartoon portrays each of the three branches of government (the legislative, executive, and judicial branch) as separate, coequal, and independent from one another. Power is divided among them, meaning no branch can ever exercise the respective power of another. This limit of power is a key principle of government known as the "Separation of Powers."
The political cartoon depicted above expresses the idea that government is created by and subject to the will of its people. Its people are its only source of power, and it wields only the power that its people grant it. Political power resides in the people and the people alone. This principle of government is known as "Popular Sovereignty."
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