The answer pl 35 points if its right

C) each branch of government has power over the other.

The checks and balances ensures that no one branch of government can become too powerful to be able to dominate the government. The Checks and balances is implemented to stop totalitarian governments from being created

~Rise Above the Ordinary, SEMPAII

the punishment for breaking the law would depend on the conditions or the seriousness of the law being broken, if he or she breaks the law while doing some great discovery or invention then it would classify as a scientific fraud. there are other words to describe the crime but scientific fraud would be the harshest one.