Sentence examples similar to the checks from inspiring English sources
Is Hungary becoming an authoritarian, overcentralised one-party state where the checks and balances of democracy are being dismantled?
you wrote about the systemic grotesqueries in the American political and electoral hydraulics, referring to among other things the checks and balances embedded in your constitution.
First, how can political actors in a seemingly well-functioning democracy quickly override checks and balances, and replace a head of state with a corrupt vice-president?
As a genuine believer in democracy, is it wrong for me to want, expect some checks and balances over Obama's sweeping use of this lethal Executive power?
That is the checks and balances in a democracy.
He gave a troubling impression that his popularity justified limiting the checks and balances typical of a democracy.
"This gives the impression that the government is willing to use the two-thirds parliamentary majority to overrule the constitutional court, which might endanger the fundamental principle of checks and balances in a democracy".
That will make us organise the checks and balances necessary in any democracy.
As Haass wrote at the time in an op-ed piece: "Immature democracies — those that hold elections but lack many of the checks and balances characteristic of a true democracy — are particularly vulnerable to being hijacked by popular passions".
Reform in Albany requires a credible, independent and active Legislature that can challenge the governor, improve or stop his proposals and protect the system of checks and balances that define a democracy.
