Congress had to approve of military appointments.
The War Powers Resolution was made so that the President of the United States could not commit to an armed conflict without the consent of the Congress.
Answer:
The British government did not have the same interests as the colonists
Explanation:
During the later European wars of the 1700s, tensions between the British Empire, and the American Colonies grew. The British were interested in maintaining control over the colonies in order to extract resources from them via taxation.
The American Colonies were interested in keeping the great degree of indendependence that they were accustomed to, and were demanding no taxation without representation.
This tensions gradually grew over time and finally led to the American Revolutionary War.
The Scientific Revolution marked the emerge of modern science towards the end of the Renaissance through the end of the 18th century, influencing the Enlightenment.
With its advances in the fields of astronomy, chemistry, biology, mathematics and physics, the Scientific Revolution put doubt in many of the Church's statements. This is why most Europeans feared and rejected the Revolution, as it posed a threat to what they believed in.
Even when most of the population refused to accept the changes in their cosmovision at the beginning, modern science made its way through society and started to enlighten the ones that were more open to it.