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Checks and balances

Provide mutual oversight and limitation by independent organizations in order to prevent abuses of power.

📖 Definitions of "Checks and balances"

verb
  1. 1

    Provide mutual oversight and limitation by independent organizations in order to prevent abuses of power.

noun
  1. 1

    A system for multiple branches of government wherein each has some control over the actions of each of the others.

  2. 2

    Somebody or something that ensures a system remains safe, honest, etc.

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