What motivated early American lawmakers to organize the legal system on almost two parallel systems?

Early American lawmakers had experienced British monarchy’s concentrated power and wanted to prevent it from recurring. They divided authority between the federal government and the states, creating two overlapping systems of government and law. This arrangement reflects the desire to protect liberty by limiting centralized power, so the best choice is “most had experienced and fled from abuse of power at the hands of monarchies.”

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