Discuss the political concept of “CHECKS AND BALANCES”.

When our founding fathers were building our country, they felt that our new nation should have a Constitution that would balance a limited form of government against the sovereignty of its people. In order to do this and safeguard the rights of the citizens they created a system of checks and balances, bicameral legislatures, and a republican governmental structure that would become know as federalism. Of the three, the Checks and Balances portion would play an important role in protecting the citizens of this new republic from the potential abuses of government.
In order to understand the Checks and Balance system, we must first understand that it is an integral part of our federal government. It plays an important role in a federation that unites political entities into a single cohesive unit and that it’s goal is to work together to ma...