Technology has improved city life in more ways that can be summed up easily. The developments of running water, electricity, sewage systems, public transportation, and many others helped to make city life safer and healthier. In addition technological developments in building construction allowed for taller buildings to be built creating more space for businesses to develop and places for humans to live in cities. In recent decades environmental regulations and cleaner energy use has created healthier and more sustainable living conditions
The Framers did not so much divide powers among the branches as they required the different branches to share power, resulting in a complex system of checks and balances that prevents any one branch from gaining power over the others.
The idea of active citizenship
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China didn't have anything to do with citizenship, cities like Athens and Sparta had laws about citizenship and what a citizen could do and what a non-citizen could and couldn't do. China didn't have anything like that at the time/\.
Protective tariffs supported domestic industry by making American goods more affordable than foreign goods.
