Read this passage from the Georgia Constitution of 1777.Article I. The legislative, executive, and judiciary departments shall be separate and distinct, so that neither exercise the powers properly belonging to the other.

The passage names three departments: legislative, executive, and judiciary. It says they must be “separate and distinct,” meaning government power is divided among three branches rather than placed in one department. Therefore, the correct choice is “made up of three separate branches.”

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