Praxis II Government and Political Science

Answer: D - The founders wanted to limit legislative powers by giving the executive the power to create independent agencies. In the years of the early American republic, the founders wanted to limit legislative powers by not letting them remove certain rights in normal times. These limitations were written into Article 1, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution, which specifically states that Congress must not suspend writs of habeas corpus unless emergencies require it; that they may not pass bills of attainder or ex post facto laws; that they are prohibited from setting taxes without the use of a census, they may not use tax reports, and that they may not give preferential laws to ports or states; that they may not draw money from the Treasury funds without laws; and that they may not grant titles of nobility.