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The ideas of Montesquieu, used in the U.S. government, establish a system of checks and balances to:

regulate trade.
establish political parties.
defend the country against foreign invasion.
prevent any one branch of the government from gaining too much power.

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Answer: To limit the power of any single group or person

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he made it to prevent a government branch from having too much power

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