<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>
Fredrick Douglas was the African American who said the Mexican War was "disgraceful" because he thought if America would annex Mexico then slavery would be carried over into the new territory.
The reason why Southerners were more likely than Northerners to support the Mexican-American War is because an American victory in the war would lead to more territory in the South being gained (territory once belonging to Mexico).
I think I wouldn't have been attracted because I probably would already have had my business settled and been making my profits. Whereas if I had gone to the west then I would have had to start over. I think the majority of people who went to the west were people who were money seekers and who were looking to better their lives.
The greeks were responsible for breaking away from the previously held idea that laws came directly from GODS an contending that they were in fact a HUMAN institution.
This breakthrough became the stepping stone of current's advance and more intellectual laws.
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