<span>B. Having three branches of government-- following Enlightenment ideas government should have checks and balances with multiple branches.
The proposed plans for the Constitutional Convention, New Jersey Plan and Virginia Plan, agreed that the new government needed to have checks and balances with branches of government. They agreed there needed to be a legislative branch to make laws, an executive branch to preside over everyday affairs, and a judicial branch to run the courts. These three branches would ensure no singular power could take over and rule as a tyrant.</span>
I think that is true. I learned this in the beginning of the year. Sorry. May be wrong.
It was in the time period known as the Edo Period.
It seems to me as if somewhere along the road, these Enlightenment ideas were in a way corrupted.<span> </span>The killing of the King is understandable because he is a symbol of the old way of government. Even killing the highest, most elite of the government was understandable. But killing every last government associate and even priests seems like a very noticeable turn from the traditional Enlightenment philosophies of Jean-Jacques and Voltaire.
