Definition of checks and balances in English:
checks and balances
plural nounˌtʃɛks ən ˈbalənsɪztʃɛks ænd
Counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups.
Example sentencesExamples
- It forms part of the system of checks and balances against the government itself.
- To ensure the latter, the constitutional system is full of checks and balances.
- Such measures can be implemented only by an authoritarian regime, free from any democratic checks and balances.
- Democracy provides a system of checks and balances against any human beings getting too much power.
- We agree on so much: division of power, checks and balances, and such.
- Don't they show that the checks and balances of our system are still working to protect the rule of law?
- That was the beginning of the violation of the constitutional separation of powers and checks and balances.
- It was influenced in part by its long exclusion from power, which educated it to the merits of checks and balances and a more pluralistic order.
- When democratic governments rise to power, the checks and balances of democracy usually prevent rogue action.
- This, our system of checks and balances, is a fundamental trait of our current democracy.
- The current system provides good checks and balances that ensure distribution is transparent and fair.
- The passing of the Cold War was therefore likely to unveil a new age of power politics, untrammelled by the checks and balances of the Cold War.
- He sees the role of unions as limited to providing checks and balances within a capitalist democracy.
- We need to make a bipartisan effort to work together and ensure proper checks and balances.
- Where is the conservative belief in limited government, in checks and balances?
- Associated with that is setting up a democratic system with full checks and balances.
- But how do we create checks and balances in a system that yields to consumer populism?
- New Zealand desperately needs checks and balances and a system that makes politicians accountable.
- Under the circumstances, the government would seem to lack any real checks and balances on its power.
- We live in a world where monarchy is largely a symbol and where even political power is subject to checks and balances, including media scrutiny.