According to historian Jack Rakove, the nearest thing to a first principle among the delegates to the Constitutional Convention was the need for the __________ to be able to resist __________ encroachments

A) executive; legislative
B)legislature; judicial
C)judiciary; executive
D)state executives; national executive


A

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