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Moreover,
checks
and balances, though still inadequate, have been strengthened in recent years.
When the next generation takes over, all of the Politburo Standing Committee members will be vested with almost equal political authority, resulting in more power-sharing and high-level
checks
and balances.
The institutional
checks
and balances built into Russia’s constitution have been neutralized.
They grab whatever power they can, disable
checks
and balances, fill all state offices with cronies, and reward their supporters (and only their supporters) with benefits in exchange for their loyalty – what political scientists call “mass clientelism.”
The Constitution is based on an eighteenth-century liberal view that power is best controlled by fragmentation and countervailing
checks
and balances.
With much of the country’s population having shifted directly from cash to mobile online payments – skipping
checks
and credit cards – China’s payments systems are robust.
But the United States has mostly avoided these traps, owing largely to term limits and a reliable system of
checks
and balances.
The resulting report, produced in collaboration with A World At School, identifies the components of the safe schools of the future: adequate public-health training for teachers, twice-daily body-temperature
checks
for children, education programs on health and Ebola transmission, and hearty, nutrient-rich meals to build up children’s resistance.
During the 2002-2004 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), in Asia, twice-daily temperature
checks
conducted by teachers made a clear and immediate contribution to stopping the spread of the disease.
And they must do everything they can to defend liberal-democratic institutions, if Trump tries to weaken
checks
and balances.
Its
checks
and balances were meant to frustrate any such mission at the hands of an all-powerful executive, and it is doubtful that Americans would support such activism in perpetuity.
Unfortunately, given Bush’s repeated assertions – in defiance of America’s constitutional tradition of
checks
and balances – that his office endows him with unilateral powers to violate rights, he appears to be untroubled by that prospect.
Not all governments agree that freedom of speech and of the press should be protected as fundamental
checks
on power.
While many mature democracies would require some kind of super-majority to confirm an enormous constitutional change like Brexit, the UK has never seen the need for such
checks
and balances.
Yes, 71% of Gallup respondents feel they pay too much in taxes; they can’t wait for their rebate
checks
and are set to go shopping.
This hardly amounts to an agenda to fight economic inequality and exclusion, and it is revealing that rich businessmen wrote the largest
checks
to support Leave.
I asked Roth if he thought that it was strange that the greatest democracy in the world must fall back on such an unlikely set of
checks
and balances.
Worryingly, the report also shows that the US president has substantial leeway to adopt trade-curbing measures, without effective
checks
by Congress or the courts.
As people pursue boycotts and disinvestment, lobby for legislation, and activate social-media campaigns with growing sophistication, they are increasingly able to influence companies’ operational and strategic decision-making, thereby imposing
checks
and balances on today’s enormous accretions of private power.
Unfortunately, annual health
checks
that screen for physical and mental-health changes and epilepsy are not routine in many countries.
Why waste precious work time in the air, at security checks, and waiting for our luggage?
Since 2012, his government has engaged in a massive anti-corruption drive, aimed at controlling the inefficiencies and abuses that have arisen from a lack of appropriate
checks
on delegated authority.
“The science of politics...like most other sciences,” claimed Alexander Hamilton, “has received great improvement....The regular distribution of power into distinct departments...legislative balances and checks...judges holding their offices during good behavior; the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own election...are means, and powerful means, by which the excellences of republican government may be retained and its imperfections lessened or avoided...”Perhaps Hamilton was too much the optimist.
As I put it at the time, “Facebook swims against the tide of a global movement toward transparency, engagement, and
checks
and balances.
For example, Colorado and many other states have sought to require more stringent background checks, aimed at preventing those with criminal records or obvious mental-health problems from arming themselves.
His politicization of the judiciary and attacks on the press are clearly driven by a desire to remove all
checks
on his power.
Neither local democracy nor small societies, neither governmental
checks
and balances nor civil rights, can prevent the decline of critical thought that democracy seems to cause.
He thought that the American president should operate beyond the
checks
and balances applied by the US Constitution, just as his country should not be constrained by any international rules.
In 1859, Tyndall described the greenhouse effect in beautifully concise words: “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.”
Minority rights, institutional
checks
on government power, human rights – the liberal aspects of democracy – are entirely absent.
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