I believe that would be Vladmir Lenin
If checks and balances didn't exist, there would be nothing stopping a group i.e. the president, from making whatever laws they wanted.
In essence, if there are no checks and balances, government is no longer a democracy because nothing prevents the group in power from doing what they want. For example, a president that wasn't checked by the opposition party could pass a law saying that they are legally allowed to be president until they die, and nobody would stop them.
The Framers chose Federalism <span>in hopes to avoid forming a government that was too powerful.Thus, divided powers between the national
government and state governments occured
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<span>B.They often showed alphabets, numbers, poems, sayings, names, and birth dates.
C. They had borders with pictures of houses, birds, flowers, or trees.</span>
<span>Total federal revenues doubled from just over $517 billion in 1980 to more than $1 trillion in 1990. In constant inflation-adjusted dollars, this was a 28 percent increase in revenue.3As a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP), federal revenues declined only slightly from 18.9 percent in 1980 to 18 percent in 1990.4<span>Revenues from individual income taxes climbed from just over $244 billion in 1980 to nearly $467 billion in 1990.5 In inflation-adjusted dollars, this amounts to a 25 percent increase.</span></span>
