In creating a national government with a system of checks and balances, the framers of the Constitution sought to
A) eliminate any role for the judicial branch.
B) limit the ability of any branch of the national government from becoming too powerful.
C) ensure that governmental accountability to the public was impossible to achieve.
D) make sure that the president was the nation's true leader who would get the final say about everything.
E) guarantee the supremacy of the states over the national government.
Ans: B) limit the ability of any branch of the national government from becoming too powerful.
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