How are checks and balances different from separation of powers?

Answer 1

Checks and Balance is the act of the branches of government taking responsibility and accountability providing full disclosure to other branches of government which act in the same manner. One hand knows what the other hand is doing. The separation of powers can create contradicting regulations as well as instigate an internal struggle for power within a government. The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. The difficulty is that goals of each power are not always aligned or for the good of the governed.

Answer 2

• separation of powers is when the power is divided among 3 branches of government (idea of Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu). The 3 branches of government are legislative (law making body), executive (presidential body), and the judicial branch (courts; law enforcing/regulating body).
• checks and balances is the idea of Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu also. It is the idea that each branch has the power to check the other to avoid tyranny (corrupt control like a monarch) and to avoid one branch from becoming too powerful. For example: the legislative branch makes a law and the president (executive branch) has the power to veto that law ("checking" the legislative branch) or the judicial branch can determine that law to be unlawful and unconstitutional (again "checking" the legislative branch)

Answer 3

Although it is not neccerssarily or explicitly put this way in text books the seperationof powers I feel is separating the citizens of this country from the decision making process of the elite.Who control the power. The term checks and balances could possible refer to the ability of the elite to check and balance the amount of power the masses are allowed to aquire. In contrast separation of power is more of division of the power power over major policy going to one particular body ie.ruling elite, and a power over lesser decisions going to less powerful bodies. whereas check and balances are more of the physical implemention of this process. Please do not use this anser on your homework assignment, it may technically not be correct.

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Separation of powers refers to the division of authority among the Executive, Judiciary, and Legislative branches of the US governmnet.

Checks and balances means that each branch has a way to nullify the actions of another.

Answer 4

Separation of Powers is a model of government in which different parts of the government are responsible for different functions; in the US, these different areas are legislative, executive and judicial.

Checks and balances is a means of trying to ensure that no one of those areas can operate completely on its own, in the US.

I don't know if political scientists would say they are one and the same, but they certainly must both operate to maintain the republic our founders envisioned.

Answer 5

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