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Jeebo

(2,023 posts) Fri Jan 31, 2020, 08:40 PM Jan 2020

What "checks and balances" REALLY means...

It's supposed to be about the different branches of the government all checking and balancing each other, but the way it has actually played out for the past 230 years or so, it's actually the two parties checking and balancing each other.

-- Ron

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What "checks and balances" REALLY means... (Original Post) Jeebo Jan 2020 OP

you mean it's not 'write the checks and alter the balances'? TalenaGor Jan 2020 #1

TalenaGor

(1,104 posts)

1. you mean it's not 'write the checks and alter the balances'?

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Fri Jan 31, 2020, 08:49 PM

Jan 2020

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