According to C. Wright Mills, three subsectors of U.S. society--the corporate rich, the executive branch of government, and the legislature--regularly interact to form the power elite.

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C. Wright Mills identified the power elite as consisting of three main sectors: the military, the corporate rich, and the political directorate (which includes the executive branch and legislative leaders, but the specific mention of the legislature as a separate entity is not accurate in the context of his theory).