Due to how powerful interest groups have become, some people have indeed referred to them as the fourth branch of government, however, the term is more widely applied to the press. Interest groups spend billions of dollars to try to influence Congress.
Checks and balances.
the most powerful branch of the government is the executive branch.
separation of powers
Checks
Checks and balances was created so no branch of government would become to powerful.
What stop one branch of government from becoming too powerful
The delegates created a checks and balances system within the federal government so no one branch could become extremely powerful. Checks and balances is apart of the separation of powers of the federal government.
Checks and balances stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
Checks and balances stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
Montesquieu
Parliamentary government
Parliamentary government