system of checks and balances

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• checks and balances — ► GOVERNMENT rules intended to prevent one person or group from having too much power within a country or an organization: »A system of checks and balances exists to ensure that our government is truly democratic. »Many executives amassed… …   Financial and business terms

• checks and balances — rules intended to prevent one person or group from having too much power within an organization. A system of checks and balances exists to ensure that our government is truly democratic …   New idioms dictionary

• Checks and Balances — ist eine Bezeichnung für die gegenseitige Kontrolle (englisch checks) von Verfassungsorganen eines Staates, zur Herstellung eines dem Erfolg des Ganzen förderlichen Systems partieller Gleichgewichte (engl. balances), zunächst im Wesentlichen …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• checks and balances — checks and bal·anc·es / ba lən səz/ n pl: the powers (as judicial review, the presidential veto, and the congressional override) conferred on each of the three branches of government by which each restrains the others from exerting too much power …   Law dictionary

• checks and balances — noun plural a political system in which no single part of a government can become too powerful, because it needs the agreement of the other parts for its actions to be legal a. a system that limits power within a group or organization …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• checks and balances — limits imposed on all branches of a government by vesting in each branch the right to amend or void those acts of another that fall within its purview. [1780 90] * * * Principle of government under which separate branches are empowered to prevent …   Universalium

• Checks and balances — Die Artikel Gewaltenteilung und Checks and Balances überschneiden sich thematisch. Hilf mit, die Artikel besser voneinander abzugrenzen oder zu vereinigen. Beteilige dich dazu an der Diskussion über diese Überschneidungen. Bitte entferne diesen… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Checks and balances — Séparation des pouvoirs La séparation des pouvoirs est un principe de répartition des différentes fonctions de l État, qui sont confiées à différentes composantes de ce dernier. On retient le plus souvent la classification de Montesquieu, appelée …   Wikipédia en Français

• checks and balances — system of restrictions within a government so that one agency does not have absolute power (ex: U.S. Congress approves the President s cabinet members and Supreme Court Justices) …   English contemporary dictionary

• checks and balances — UK / US noun [plural] a system that limits power within a political system, group, or organization in which no single part of it can become too powerful, because it needs the agreement of the other parts for its actions to be legal …   English dictionary

• checks and balances — noun plural Date: 1787 a system that allows each branch of a government to amend or veto acts of another branch so as to prevent any one branch from exerting too much power …   New Collegiate Dictionary