11. Explain how the issues of states' rights and slavery increased tensions between the North and the South in the years leading up to
the Civil War. (H5)

How did the issues of states' rights and slavery increase sectional tension between the North and South? The South feared that the North would take control of Congress, and Southerners began to proclaim states' rights as a means of self-protection.

Explanation:

montesquieu took the view that the roman republic had powers separated so that no one could usurp complete power. in the british constitutional system, montesquieu discerned a separation of powers among the monarch, parliament, and the courts of law.