People generally prefer to conserve effort by relying on automatic modes of thought (rather than conscious modes of thought) whenever they can. that is, people tend to

I believe the answer is: Be cognitive misers

Cognitive misers refers to the tendency that people have to tackle complicated problems in the most effortless way possible rather than conducting a thoughtful and logical approach. Cognitive misers often resulted in prejudice and bias when observing a certain situation

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B. it promoted the powers of the executive branch