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The united states government is divided into three parts known as the executive legislative and judicial branches each branch of government has powers and responsibilities that the others do not which divides political power in the united states this arrangement is most similar to a model created by which of these enlightenment thinkers?

A. charles de montesquieu
B. Thomas hobbes
C. jean-jacques rousseau
D.voltaire

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A. charles de montesquieu
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A. Charles de Montesquieu

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The Enlightenment thinker and French politician, Charles-Louis de Secondat (also named Baron de Montesquieu), was the one that established and promoted the idea that the government should be separated into three different branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judicial; all of which should rule under the law and must check each other’s power in order to prevent corruption and abuses of power.

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