Assuming checks is required, and balances is required, the following results were found.

  • Checks and Balances

    judicial. That was an important decision because it gave specific powers to each branch and set up something called checks and balances. Just like the phrase sounds, the point of checks and balances was to make sure no one branch would be able to...

    https://bensguide.gpo.gov/j-check-balance

  • Glossary

    state, or nation. centralized government: A form of government in which the national government maintains the power. checks and balances: Limits placed on the branches of Government by giving each the right to amend acts of the other branches. citizen:...

    https://bensguide.gpo.gov/glossary-mobile

  • The Federalist Papers: 1787-1788

    To address these fears, Hamilton, Jay, and Madison analyzed the Constitution in detail and outlined the built in checks and balances meant to divide power between the three branches of government and preserve the rights of the people and states. Even...

    https://bensguide.gpo.gov/m-federalist-papers-1787-1788

  • The Constitutional Convention

    Compromise. The Constitution also created an executive branch and a judicial branch, which set up a system of checks and balances. All three branches would have a distribution of power so that no one branch could become more powerful than another. Early...

    https://bensguide.gpo.gov/m-constitutional-convention

  • The Judicial Branch

    if a law violates the Constitution is called judicial review. It is this process that the judiciary uses to provide checks and balances on the legislative and executive branches. Judicial review is not an explicit power given to the courts, but it is an...

    https://bensguide.gpo.gov/m-judicial

  • The Executive Branch

    of placing too much power in the hands of one person. In the end, they created the executive branch with a system of checks and balances included into the Constitution, and our current system of a single President was born. Article II of the...

    https://bensguide.gpo.gov/m-executive

  • U.S. Constitution: 1789

    of Representatives. The Constitution also created an executive branch and a judicial branch to set up a system of checks and balances. All three branches would have power so no one branch could become more powerful than another. The Constitution was...

    https://bensguide.gpo.gov/u-s-constitution-1789

  • The Constitutional Convention

    Compromise. The Constitution also created an executive branch and a judicial branch, which set up a system of checks and balances. All three branches would have a distribution of power so that no one branch could become more powerful than another. Early...

    https://bensguide.gpo.gov/j-constitutional-convention

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