Why did the states place so much power in hands of the popularly elected legislatures?

They viewed powerful executives as enemies of liberty.

States viewed powerful executives as having the potential to become tyrannical. As a result, almost all of the state constitutions written in the late 1770s placed most of the power in the legislatures

i think its either b or c

explanation:

operation overlord was the codename for the battle of normandy, the allied operation that launched the successful invasion of german-occupied western europe during world war ii. the operation was launched on 6 june 1944 with the normandy landings