check and balance

Definitions

1. 1

   Provide mutual oversight and limitation by independent organizations in order to prevent…

   Provide mutual oversight and limitation by independent organizations in order to prevent abuses of power.

   • Since each branch had exclusive powers, separated powers did not mean an aggressively political process of checking and balancing of executive policy choices by Congress.
   • The Constitution achieves this checking and balancing function in several ways.
2. 2

   The mutual oversight provided by a system of independent organizations with control over…

   The mutual oversight provided by a system of independent organizations with control over each other.

   • Whoever has taken a critical and serious look at human history will indisputably come to conclusion that man's madness and craziness know no boundary or limit even when check and balance of power are being applied.
   • Because of the check and balance function of journalists, they are sometimes called the “watchdog for the people”.
   • In this way, moral check and balance is combined with legal check and balance (i.e., legally based check and balance).

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