The united states government is divided into three parts known as the executive legislative and judicial branches each branch of government has powers and responsibilities that the others do not which divides political power in the united states this arrangement is most similar to a model created by which of these enlightenment thinkers?
a. charles de montesquieu
b. thomas hobbes
c. jean-jacques rousseau
d. voltaire

A. Charles de Montesquieu

Explanation:

The Enlightenment thinker and French politician, Charles-Louis de Secondat (also named Baron de Montesquieu), was the one that established and promoted the idea that the government should be separated into three different branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judicial; all of which should rule under the law and must check each other’s power in order to prevent corruption and abuses of power.

the caste system in india is the paradigmatic ethnographic example of caste. it has origins in ancient india, and was transformed by various ruling elites in medieval, early-modern, and modern india, especially the mughal empire and the british raj.it is today the basis of educational and job reservations in india.it consists of two different concepts, varna and jati, which may be regarded as different levels of analysis of this system.

the caste system as it exists today is thought to be the result of developments during the collapse of the mughal era and the british colonial regime in india. the collapse of the mughal era saw the rise of powerful men who associated themselves with kings, priests and ascetics, affirming the regal and martial form of the caste ideal, and it also reshaped many apparently casteless social groups into differentiated caste communities.the british raj furthered this development, making rigid caste organisation a central mechanism of administration

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