Why would the framers want congress to be more powerful than the executive branch?
a. because it was in control of making laws
b. because it was smaller than the judicial branch
c. because it is the biggest branch and divided power amongst the most amount of people
d. because it deals with the foreign heads of state

the fact that could also be added to column b is that during world war ii, specifically between the years 1941 and 1945, japan expanded its territory towards the indonesian territory in what was known later as part of the "pacific war". in that time, japan could conquer the philipines, singapore,   borneo, central java, malang, cebu, sumatra and various other islands of the area, therefore expanding its territory for a brief period of time.