Montesquieu, he was cited more times by the Founding Fathers than any other source except The Bible. His model was based on the Roman Republic and the British constitutional system.
Barron de Montesquieu originally thought of the idea for checks and balances. :)
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Checks and balances
The writers of the US Constitution put into practice the idea of separation of powers through a system of checks and balances.
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checks and balancesIt is a system of checks and balances.
French philosopher, Montesquieu(1689-1755)
Checks and balances.
Example sentence for the noun phrase 'checks and balances':The government uses checks and balances to separate the responsibilities of departments.
Montesquie suggested that government should have checks and balances. He thought it was especially important that government concentrated seperatley on each branch- executive, judicial, and legistlative. Today, we have the idea of checks and balances thanks to the Enlightenment thinker, Montesquie.
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Each branch of the government should limit the power of the others.