
The US Constitution fulfills three essential roles:
- It offers a checks and balances system, so no one element has absolute power and control.
- It further divides the power between the federal and state governments.
- It also provides citizens with protection for their rights and liberties.
First it creates a national government consisting of a legislative, an executive, and a judicial branch, with a system of checks and balances among the three branches. Second, it divides power between the federal government and the states. And third, it protects various individual liberties of American citizens.
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