How do the executive and the judicial branch “check” the power of the legislature?

states began imposing duties on each other's goods. congress had no way to raise money for an army to expel them.

president thomas jefferson hoped that the embargo act of 1807 would the united states by demonstrating to britain and france their dependence on american goods, convincing them to respect american neutrality and stop impressing american seamen. instead, the act had a devastating effect on american trade.