Under this model, the state is divided into branches, each with separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility so that the powers of one branch are not in conflict with the powers associated with the other branches. The typical division of branches is into a legislature, an executive, and a judiciary. It can be contrasted with the fusion of powers in a parliamentary system where the executive and legislature (and sometimes parts of the judiciary) are unified.
Gein served as a model for several book and film characters, most notably such fictional serial killers as Norman Bates (Psycho), Leatherface (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), Buffalo Bill (The Silence of the Lambs) and Bloody Face (American Horror Story).
Buffalo Bill (1846-1917). In a life that was part legend and part fabrication, William F. Cody came to embody the spirit of the West for millions, transmuting his own experience into a national myth of frontier life that still endures today.Born in Scott County, Iowa, in 1846, Cody grew up on the prairie.y his own count, he killed 4,280 head of buffalo in seventeen months. He is supposed to have won the name Buffalo Bill in an eight-hour shooting match with a hunter named William Comstock, presumably to determine which of the two Buffalo Bill s deserved the title.