The Founders of the United States Established a Government Structure

The founders of the United States established a government structure with numerous checks and balances due to which of the following motives?

A) A desire to prevent too much power being assumed by slave-holding Southern states.
B) To ensure that the new government could not tyrannize the population.
C) The desire to build a strong, deliberative process that would lead to slow implementation of policy and incremental change.
D) A desire to maintain the greatest amount of power in the legislative branch, or Congress, since that branch remains closest to the will of the people.