The framers of the constitution adopted montesquieu's notion of a "mixed regime" when they a. adopted a federal rather than a unitary system. b. gave the president the veto power. c. balanced republican virtue and self-interest. d. gave each of the branches a distinctly different constituency.

barrio is a spanish word meaning neighborhood. in spain, several latin american countries and the philippines, the term is also used officially to denote a division of a municipality while a ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure. the term may have originally been used in venice to describe the part of the city to which jews were restricted and segregated.