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Democratic control of the House of Representatives means that, from January 2019, there will be more checks on Trump’s policies.
After her death, tens of millions grieved and many wrote letters and sent checks to the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, which has a website called www.theworkcontinues.org .
Hence May’s agonized efforts to secure a deal that prevents a “hard” border with customs checks.
Rather, what is distinctive about populists in power is that they attend only to their clientele (the rest of the population is utterly undeserving) and ride roughshod over checks and balances.
From a populist perspective, this makes perfect sense: Why should they accept checks on their power if they represent the authentic will of the people?
Indeed, these upheavals may act as informal checks on official power.
True, America’s founding fathers created a system of checks and balances designed to preserve liberty at the price of efficiency.
Succumbing to the temptation to consolidate power in the hands of the president, ostensibly to protect his government’s authority, could limit checks and balances and restrict space for political opposition, including within his own party.
If the concentrated economic and social power that financial markets and network economies tend to create can be used to capture and control political power, an effective system of checks and balances becomes virtually impossible.
Madison’s answer to the possibility of an “American Mussolini” was a system of institutional checks and balances ensuring that the US would never resemble Italy in 1922 – or Russia, China, or Turkey today.
That means the standard twice-yearly checks of compliance with the EU’s Stability and Growth Pact, as performed by the European Commission under the so-called European Semester procedure.
Nevertheless, for countries like Ireland or Portugal, a tougher “post-program surveillance” procedure was designed following their bailouts: quarterly checks conducted not only by the European Commission but also by the European Central Bank.
It is therefore vital that the United States and other NATO allies speak out now and insist that functioning democratic checks and balances are safeguarded.
How will he use the enormous powers granted the Russian president in a political system that lacks any real checks and balances?
Thus, at the beginning of the current decade, the democratic system of political checks and balances that had been created in the 1990’s began to be dismantled.
As a result of the disappearance of these checks and balances, the quality of the government’s decisions has fallen sharply.
The most important question of the day is not the government’s perspective, that is, its desire to instill fear and eliminate checks and balances on its power.
The secular establishment argues that the AKP’s moderation thus far reflects the checks and balances implied by secularist control of the presidency.
Any system of checks will inevitably involve some sort of physical control.
The customs officers tasked with implementing those checks will inevitably become symbols of division, and potentially even a provocation to violence by republican extremists, as happened in the past.
There are checks and balances, and the President must obtain the support of the people.
Equity and currency markets regularly punish countries for even a hint of political upheaval, whereas rulers with more power and fewer checks and balances are assumed to be more capable of ensuring meaningful “reforms.”
In the absence of open political competition, Putin has built a system of checks and balances within the elite.
The government likewise subjects officials to lifestyle checks and vets their statements of assets and liabilities to find out if what they have acquired is commensurate with their declared income.
This authority, the technocrats claim, in turn is part of a system of national and supra-national checks and balances which, while not resembling a national democracy, would reliably prevent despotism from taking root in Brussels.
He wrote: “The atmosphere admits of the entrance of solar heat, but checks its exit; and the result is a tendency to accumulate heat at the surface of the planet.”
Meanwhile, the Schengen Agreement, which eliminated most border checks between European Union member states, has facilitated the ability of immigrants from the poorer parts of Asia and Africa to flock to Northern European welfare states in recent years.
Its political institutions are based on a carefully calibrated system of checks and balances, which, by enhancing accountability, helps to control the misjudgments and self-dealing of those in power.
But checks and balances can also impede crucial reforms.
In view of this, it is essential to seek better systems of checks and balances as well as to strengthen and sharpen public control of the executive.
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