The Framers of the Constitution Worried That Powerful Leaders and Institutions

Multiple Choice

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:

A) a formal bill of rights, to restrict the power of Congress through the federal judiciary.
B) an elaborate system of checks and balances, as well as a division and sharing of powers among the three branches of government.
C) a system of power sharing between the states and federal government, even with the national government being supreme.
D) the ideas of French political theorist Montesquieu, who the framers were all familiar with, about the then-untested concept of legislative bicameralism.