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checks and balances
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  • There are checks and balances; there always are, I wouldn't have it any other way.†  (source)
  • "Adam trusted our leadership, the checks and balances of our Constitution, and felt it was his duty to go where he was ordered to go," says Larry.†  (source)
  • But right now, she also felt the checks and balances of their stares as they watched her with Josie, waiting for her to act-well-judiciously.†  (source)
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  • It was maddening for a police officer, but he admitted that this element of checks and balances would have been useful in this case.†  (source)
  • It was known, for example, that checks and balances exist in the normal environment.†  (source)
  • They created a system of government with checks and balances so that no branch of government would become despotic.†  (source)
  • And beyond independence, as he consistently emphasized, was the ultimate need for a republican form of government built on a foundation of checks and balances.†  (source)
  • We have a system of checks and balances and things, but when it comes down to it we don't have much check on the Court, so who'll bell the cat?†  (source)
  • Number 51: Separation of Powers: Checks and Balances  (source)
  • Number 51: Separation of Powers: Checks and Balances  (source)
  • John Quincy did not comprehend, after a lifetime in the thick of it, how our complicated Federal system of checks and balances operated; nor did he realize that what he regarded as Jefferson's "machinations" was merely a facet of the latter's genius applied with success to the art and science of Government.†  (source)
  • Checks and balances.†  (source)
  • The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments.†  (source)
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