AP US Government › Separation of Powers
What is the main purpose of auxiliary precautions?
Which of these is not a check on the power of the Executive that is specified in the Constitution?
Which clause provides that the Constitution shall be the supreme law of the land?
Which of the following officials hold office for life or until retirement?
Which of the following is not one of Congress’s economic powers, as established by the Constitution?
Which branch of government uses the veto to check the legislature?
Judicial review gives ______________.
Which of the following is a congressional check on the president?
According to the Constitution, who was given specific authority to declare war?
Passage adapted from Baron de Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws (1748)
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates \[government officials\], there can be no liberty; because apprehensions \[fears\] may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner…
Given the passage provided, which solution would Baron de Montesquieu offer to avoid the enactment of tyrannical laws?