The answer is A. It distributes power among three branches of government
Mr. Butler says that the Great Depression affected him more than the Civil War because for him it the end of the country of the opportunities. For him the most heartbraking things were the thousands of people living on the streets with no job, no home, no food, the schools and churches being transformed into refuges for thousans of people. This were the matters that really affected him instead of the war itself.
Because they were being governed by an unjustly government who used their powers to an abusive extent from over taxations to not caring about what the colonists wanted.