Federalism limited the powers of government in the United States in that it created two sovereigns, the state government and the federal government which must share power.
The 27th <span> amendment as proposed by Congress in 1789
reads as follows: No law, varying the compensation for the services of
the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election
of Representatives shall have intervened.</span>
When our Founding Fathers sought inspiration in forming our government after the American Revolution, it was to the mother country of Great Britain -- at the time, the world’s most powerful parliamentary democracy -- that they turned. It may at first seem like a contradiction that the very country we had fought a bloody war to get away from was in fact the country that inspired so many of our political traditions. But to turn away from British traditions would, in a sense, be like turning away from our birthright.
The right answer is C. influenced the development of the language in which they were written. I JUST TOOK THE TEST
The correct answer is A) so that no single branch of the government would gain too much power.
<em>The concepts of checks and balances were established by the authors of the Constitution so that no single branch of the government would gain too much power.</em>
This concept is a valuable precept because with the checks and balances can prevent wrongdoings from the other parts of the government and the exercise of power is divided equally. In the United States, the Constitution acknowledges three branches: the executive, that in the presidency of the U.S., the legislative, that is the House of Representatives and the Senate, and finally, the Judiciary, that is the Supreme Court.
