The correct answer is A) providing guides and limits to the government’s power.
The Constitution regulates government powers by providing guides and limits to the government’s power.
That is why the Constitution establishes a federal form of government with sovereign states. The federal government is divided into a system of checks and balances so no branch has more power than the other. The branches of the government are the executive branch that relies on the US President, the legislative branch that is the House of Representatives and the Senate, and the judicial branch that relies on the Supre Court.
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Slavery played the central role during the American Civil War. The primary catalyst for secession was slavery, especially Southern political leaders' resistance to attempts by Northern antislavery political forces to block the expansion of slavery into the western territories.