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  2. Separation of powers under the United States Constitution

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    They can also enforce the Constitution and treaties that were previously made by other branches of government. The system of checks and balances makes it so that no one branch of government has more power than another and cannot overthrow another. It creates a balance of power that is necessary for a government to function, if it is to function ...

  3. Madisonian model - Wikipedia

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    The Madisonian model is a structure of government in which the powers of the government are separated into three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. This came about because the delegates saw the need to structure the government in such a way to prevent the imposition of tyranny by either majority or minority.

  4. Federalist No. 51 - Wikipedia

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    Federalist No. 51 addresses the separation of powers, the federal structure of government and the maintenance of checks and balances by "opposite and rival interests" within the national government. One of Federalist No. 51's most important ideas, an explanation of checks and balances, is the often-quoted phrase, "Ambition must be made to ...

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    The U.S. government's system of checks and balances can withstand attempts at presidential overreach, and the Senate, courts, and civil society must do their part to ensure that the Constitution ...

  6. Separation of powers - Wikipedia

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    In the Roman Republic, the Roman Senate, Consuls and the Assemblies showed an example of a mixed government according to Polybius (Histories, Book 6, 11–13). It was Polybius who described and explained the system of checks and balances in detail, crediting Lycurgus of Sparta with the first government of this kind. [3]

  7. Constitution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution's first three articles embody the doctrine of the separation of powers, in which the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislative, consisting of the bicameral Congress ; the executive, consisting of the president and subordinate officers ; and the judicial, consisting of the Supreme Court and other federal ...

  8. EDITORIAL: Amendments 1 & 2 about checks on gov't ... - AOL

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    Amendment 1, if passed, would give the Legislature the power to impeach /remove any government employee and make such a decision unreviewable by any ... EDITORIAL: Amendments 1 & 2 about checks on ...

  9. Positions of Honor - AOL

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    The only thing more pitiful than a government in which checks and balances no longer meaningfully exist is that government pretending that it’s still operating according to the constitutional ...