The person who provided the ideas upon which the principle of separation of powers and checks and balances was based was

A) Thomas Jefferson.
B) John Locke.
C) Baron de Montesquieu.
D) James Madison.
E) Thomas Hobbes.

C

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a. Attitudinal b. New institutional c. Flexible d. Strict constructionist

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