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Checks and Balances

niklasalniklasal Member Posts: 776 ✭✭✭✭
edited March 2002 in General Discussion
Do any of you have a problem with the so-called "Checks & Balances" they taught us in grammar school social studies?According to our teachers, it is a system by which no branch of the government can achieve too much power. It seems to me that this is flawed and can easily be corrupted. More of a "let's give and recieve favors"
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I could see favors being exchanged in the Executive branch and Congress....how would that work in the Judicial branch?
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  • niklasalniklasal Member Posts: 776 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Executive appoints supreme court judges. "If you get Joe appointed as a judge, then we'll make sure you win the bid for presidency." maybe?
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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The only problem with checks and balances among the three branches of government so that no one branch can usurp all the power is that there is a fourth entity that power can be taken from: the people. While the checks and balances prevent any one branch of government from being too powerful at the expense of the other two, nothing prevents all of them from colluding to become collectively more powerful at the expense of the people. The Constitution itself was supposed to prevent that, but the three branches choose not to abide by its limitations on their powers.
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