The primary purpose of the Constitution’s system of checks and balances is

a. to ensure that no one interest or faction could easily dominate the government.
b. to ensure that the people do not become too powerful and attempt to control the government.
c. to protect the executive branch from abuses of the judicial branch.
d. to allow the president to be removed from office.
e. to ensure that the government remains powerful and supreme.


ANS: A

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