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The framers of the Constitution worried that powerful leaders and institutions must be held accountable by other powerful leaders and institutions, which led them to adopt:

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Answer: checks and balances

Explanation: it’s “ a system that allows each branch of a government to amend or veto acts of another branch so as to prevent any one branch from exerting too much power”

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