1. Why did the Founding Fathers create independent institutions like the Supreme Court? to create an independent check on the popular will of the voting public
to insulate the government from foreign influence
to create an alternative method of creating and passing legislation
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to make the federal government less powerful

  to create an independent check on popular will of voting public

Explanation: because I just took a test that said its right

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.