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The system of checks and balances in the U.S. federal government was taken from the ideas of which Enlightenment thinker؟ Question 11 options: Locke Rousseau Montesquieu Voltair…

The system of checks and balances in the U.S. federal government was taken from the ideas of which Enlightenment thinker؟ Question 11 options: Locke Rousseau Montesquieu Voltair…
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The system of checks and balances in the U.S. federal government was taken from the ideas of which Enlightenment thinker؟

Question 11 options:

Locke


Rousseau


Montesquieu


Voltaire

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Montesquieu- He believed that each of the branches should be able to keep each other in Check so there isn’t a shift in governed power therefore creating the checks and balances that we use to this day.
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