So that no portion of government could become to powerful and overthrow other portions of the government and to guard against any one branch becoming too powerful, the Constitution provides a system of checks and balances.
The writers of the US Constitution put into practice the idea of separation of powers through a system of checks and balances.
To allow leaders to make bolder decisions
To allow leaders to make bolder decisions
To prevent -anyone- from becoming a "king" (all powerful).
its writers feared a concentration of political power.
to make sure that every citizen would have the same freedomns
So that no portion of government could become to powerful and overthrow other portions of the government and to guard against any one branch becoming too powerful, the Constitution provides a system of checks and balances.
The writers of the Constitution added a system of checks and balances so that no part of the government would have too much power. And so that the common people did not exert to much power on the federal government (I know, seems anti-democratic, but hey, they were elitists back then)
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The framers of the Constitution did not want the new government to become a Dictatorship. Dictatorships only have one leader and power goes unchecked.
checks and balances.
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