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单词 checks and balances
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checks and balances
e. checks and balances: means of limiting or counteracting the wrongful use of administrative power. Originally and chiefly U.S.
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society > authority > rule or government > misrule or misgovernment > [noun] > means of counteracting
checks and balances1787
1787 J. Adams Def. Constit. Govt. U.S.A. I. p. iii The checks and balances of republican governments have been in some degree adapted by the courts of princes.
1842 Tyler in Messages & Papers of Presidents (U.S.) IV. 193 A proceeding tending to the utter destruction of the checks and balances of the Constitution.
1958 Economist 13 Dec. (African Suppl.) 24/1 A far more complicated federal constitution of checks and balances has had to be adopted to hold together..Nigeria.
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