The Magna Carta and other similar documents led the English government to develop a political system in which citizens were all given the same political power and opportunity. The Magna Carta greatly limited the monarch's power in England, and the English Bill of Rights guarantees that all English citizens have the same basic rights. This eventually led to democracy, with the monarch acting as a figurehead for the country.
The congress was very powerful at the time and needed to be put in line. The two branches were created to control it. The remaining two branches were not specifically enumerated as thoroughly because they were still weak at the time and their power developed over time.
(Also known as the South African War) between the British and the Boers was the first modern ''total'' war. The Boars were Dutch farmers with European ancestry who gradually settled in Africa many years before other Europeans and were considered Africans.