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use the terms separation of powers and checks and balances to describe how the US Constitution set up three branches of federal government

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Checks and Balances refers to the system that the US Constitution set up to ensure that no one branch of government would become too powerful. In the system set upby the U.S. Constitution, the national government is divided into three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
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