One of the Constitution’s most important aspects is the system of checks and balances. Our Founding Fathers understood that a threat to individual liberty was a government with consolidated powers. They cleverly devised a system of divided government, where the powers would be divided between the states and the federal government; and at the federal government, the power would be separated among three distinct branches: the legislative (Congress), the executive (the President), and the judiciary (the Supreme Court).
Posted on: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 14:43:28 +0000
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