There are at least 4 branches of gov’t, not 3.
Executive, Legislative, Judicial and Regulatory.
Regarding that last:
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
Enough said.
Therein lies the answer.
No tyranny can long survive without an endless supply of unjust bureaucrats.
No group can be more effortlessly unjust than the ignorant.
What does that suggest?
The States were supposed to be the fourth branch of government. Then we look at a place like California and see its government acting in total regard of the law, insanely so.