Answer:
The structure of US government: checks and balances
Explanation:
In addition to separating powers among the branches, the Framers gave each branch the power to check, or stop, the actions of the other two branches in meaningful ways. For example, the president has the power to veto, or reject, laws made by Congress.
Answer:
Maya
The Maya organized themselves into small city-states instead of one big empire. The largest was Tikal, which by 750 CE had about 40,000 inhabitants, in specialized occupations and ruled by elites.
Answer:
Because these people did not necessarily see taxes as a wrong thing in itself.
Explanation:
What the American revolutionary leaders did not agree with was paying taxes to the British, because of the lack of American representation in the British parliament (no taxation without representation was their slogan).
When the United States was born, and styled as a republic, and a democratic republic, these American leaders did not see anything wrong with people paying taxes to the new American government. This was not a tyrannical, undemocratic foreign government, but the very government that guaranteed American citizens many civil and political rights.
It was only to be expected that American citizens should contribute to the functioning of the new nation.
