Because they realized the chief was getting too much power. And in the older days, it was easy to abuse power.the colonists fought for fairness in the government system they had originally. And by limiting the power of the chief it caused everything to be more fair. It didn't let everything be more of a dictatorship.
The correct answer is D, it would have thrown off the balance of slave versus free states.
There are multiple pick ur favorite i guess.
John Locke. His ideas of the social contract, religious toleration, natural law, etc. contributed to U.S. constitution. Also he’s kind of the man that emphasized democracy.
Montesquieu. His idea proposed the separation of the government into 3 branches: executive, legislative, and judicial.
Rousseau:
The area was contested by both America and Britain. Native Americans living there traded with
settlers from both countries who were now growing in number. Later there were more Americans than British
and competition was getting tenser. Later
negotiations were made and boundaries were drawn as the Americans and British
were able to settle their boundary dispute.
The Monroe Doctrine was passed in begging of 1823 and was a policy opposing European colonizing what would later become the United States of America.
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