Why did the authors of the constitution create checks and balances and a federal system?

To help prevent any one of the 3 branches from gaining too much power.

Ifound this on google”the munich conference of 1938 was prompted by d. hitler's intention to take control of part of czechoslovakia. hitler sought to unite german-speaking people in a single nation and thus turned his sights on the sudetenland, a german-speaking region of czechoslovakia.” i hope it you