The us constitution limits the power of the executive branch through
congress and the supreme court.
the articles of confederation.
the three-fifths compromise.
the armed forces.

The correct answer is Congress and the Supreme Court.

The US Constitution was developed with a system of checks and balances. In this case Congress (the legislative branch) and Supreme Court (judicial branch) have the ability to check the power of the president (executive branch). Congress can override a presidential veto and the Supreme Court can rule an executive order or an action taken by the president as unconstitutional. These types of safeguards ensure that the president is held to the same laws as all other American citizens.

 Congress and the Supreme Court.

The US Constitution limits the power of the executive branch through  Congress and the Supreme Court.

The Constitution of the United States used the principle known as "Separation of Powers" to provide a check and balance between coequal branches of government.  The Executive Branch (President), the Legislative Branch (Congress), and the Judicial Branch (the courts, headed by the Supreme Court) are the three branches of government.

The "Separation of Powers" principle was an idea embedded into the plans for American government by our founding fathers, based on their reading of Enlightenment political theory.  The terminology "separation of powers" was introduced by Charles-Louis de Secondat, the Baron of Montesquieu.  (Usually he's referred to as just "Montesquieu.")  He wrote an important work of political theory called The Spirit of the Laws, published in 1748.  Within his treatment of how governments will function best, Montesquieu argued that executive, legislative, and judicial functions of government ought to be divided between parts of the government, so that no one person or division of the government can infringe on the overall rights of others in the government or of the members of the society overall.

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

explanation:

separation of powers, therefore, refers to the division of government responsibilities into distinct branches to limit any one branch from exercising the core functions of another.   the intent is to prevent the concentration of power and provide for checks and balances.  

the traditional characterizations of the powers of the branches of american government are:

* the legislative branch is responsible for enacting the laws of the state and appropriating the money necessary to operate the government.

* the executive branch is responsible for implementing and administering the public policy enacted and funded by the legislative branch.

* the judicial branch is responsible for interpreting the constitution and laws and applying their interpretations to controversies brought before it.

forty state constitutions specify that government be divided into three branches:   legislative, executive and judicial.   california illustrates this approach; "the powers of state government are legislative, executive, and judicial.   persons charged with the exercise of one power may not exercise either of the others except as permitted by this constitution."

while separation of powers is key to the workings of american government, no democratic system exists with an absolute separation of powers or an absolute lack of separation of powers. governmental powers and responsibilities intentionally overlap; they are too complex and interrelated to be neatly compartmentalized. as a result, there is an inherent measure of competition and conflict

minnesota:   minnesota house research,   separation of powers: when statutes and court rules conflict, 2005