How might the system of checks and balances increase public confidence in the government but decrease its effincency

It might increase the public confidence in the government because the government doesnt have to worry about any of the branches holding greater powers over the other branches, which would somehow lead to its lack of efficency.

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in which two ways were the northeast woodland indians and the southeast indians similar? both collaborated to form the iroquois confederacy. both cultivated the crops of corn, beans, and squash. both lived in rich environments of swamps and rivers. both lived in tree-bark dwellings called wigwams. both expected men to hunt, while women farmed.