Base your answer to this question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.
... The Executive and the Legislative are so dangerously blended as to give just cause of alarm, and everything relative thereto, is couched in such ambiguous
terms—in such vague and indefinite expression, as is a sufficient ground without any other objection, for the reprobation [disapproval of a system, that the authors
dare not hazard to a clear investigation. ..
There is no provision for a rotation, nor anything to prevent the perpetuity [permanence) of office in the same hands for life; which by a little well timed bribery, will
probably be done, to the exclusion of men of the best abilities from their share in the offices of government. ...
- Mercy Otis Warren, 1788
What reason does Mercy Otis Warren give for the position she stated concerning the executive and legislative branches?
1.
The duties of the president and of Congress were not clearly separated.
Federal courts were a threat to individual liberty.
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The thirteen states could never agree on important issues.
The United States Constitution would benefit only a wealthy few.