The founders of the United States established a government structure with numerous checks and balances due to which of the following motives?
A. A desire to prevent too much power being assumed by slave-holding Southern states.
B. To ensure that the new government could not tyrannize the population.
C. The desire to build a strong, deliberative process that would lead to slow implementation of policy and incremental change.
D. A desire to maintain the greatest amount of power in the legislative branch, or Congress, since that branch remains closest to the will of the people.
B. To ensure that the new government could not tyrannize the population.
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