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Group A: Directions: Read each passage. Highlight or underline necessary information. Write your summary. CHOOSE 2

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Group A: Directions: Read each passage. Highlight or underline necessary information. Write your summary. CHOOSE 2

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Retell the main/important ideas in your own words, in order.

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The concept that we call “checks and balances” in the U.S. Constitution was put there to protect against the possibility of a single branch of government becoming too powerful. For example, if the Executive Branch were to become too powerful, then the government could easily become a dictatorship instead of a democracy. To protect against this, the founding fathers distributed power equally between the three branches of government. They also set up ways that each branch “checks” the power of the other branches, so that no one branch of government can operate without having to interact with and get the approval of the other two.

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Create a Venn Diagram comparing summarizing and paraphrasing using the information you've learned. In the middle, write what is similar. In the other parts how they are different.