2. (08.02 mc) why did president reagan call libya's leader the "mad dog of the middle east"?

President Reagan decided to call Lybia's leader the "mad dog of the Middle East" because of the terrorist attacks on Europe that he had sponsored. This took place during a news conference in April 1986, and the comment was directed towards Moammar Ghadafi. The conference was organized due to a bombing that occurred at a Berlin disco during which two American servicemen were killed.

Federalism: Structured Freedom
The purpose of both horizontal and vertical power balance was to protect individual liberty, the goal the Founding Fathers had in mind when they wrote the Constitution. They believed the only way to preserve individual liberty was to check government power.