Although the term "bureaucracy" was not coined until the mid 18th century, organized and consistent administrative systems are much older. The development of writing<span> (ca. 3500 BC) and the use of documents was critical to the administration of this system, and the first definitive emergence of bureaucracy is in ancient </span>Sumer<span>, where an emergent class of </span>scribes<span> used </span>clay tablets<span> to administer the harvest and allocate its spoils.</span> Ancient Egypt<span> also had a hereditary class of scribes that administered the </span>civil service<span> bureaucracy.</span>
The Puritans were members of a religious reform movement known as Puritanism that arose within the Church of England in the late 16th century. They believed the Church of England was too similar to the Roman Catholic Church and should eliminate ceremonies and practices not rooted in the Bible.
It is the legislative branch that received the most power under the Constitution, since the Founding Fathers wanted to make sure that only elected officials carried the most power to avoid the rise of tyranny.
