The excerpt from the U.S. Constitution illustrates the principle of checks and balances. This principle ensures that power is distributed and that different branches of government (in this case, the Executive and Legislative branches) can check each other's powers to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.
The President . . . shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur.
—U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 2
This excerpt provides one example of which constitutional principle?
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Federalism
Federalism
Popular sovereignty
Popular sovereignty
Checks and balances
Checks and balances
Individual rights
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