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Checks And Balances Of The Constitution

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Our constitution was designed to prevent one man or group from coming to power. This statement can be true and sometimes it can't be true. Things that make this statement true is checks and balances, federalism, separation of powers, and the bill of rights. Checks and balances is used to keep the government from becoming powerful in one branch. Its meant to keep all the branches equal so that way there isn't less power in any of the branches. Then there's separation of government which states separates our government into three branches which are the legislative, executive, and judicial. There's also federalism which divides the powers of between government and state. This is very helpful since every state gets to make its own laws freely
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