I think more people voted in favor of Roosevelt, because he felt the government should be spending time to help people who were in economic trouble. More people at that time blamed Hoover for the Great Depression crisis.
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In 2016, California passed 900 new laws. In 2015, there were 930 new laws. About 900 laws will be passed in 2017 as well.
So, if you are counting only 2015, and 2016, there were approximately 1830 new laws in those past two years only in California. Not all of them are good, not all of them made people happy, but it is not the people who decide about this, unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately?).
Answer:
James Madison. the system set up to maintain a balance of power among the three branches of government is called. checks and balances.