It tried to increase its military hopefully causing fear into the colonists to back down.
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Based on their experience, the framers shied away from giving any branch of the new government too much power. The separation of powers provides a system of shared power known as Checks and Balances. ... Each of these branches has certain powers, and each of these powers is limited, or checked, by another branch.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.