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      9 months ago

      Checks and balances would be the executive and judicial branches, not the senate.

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        9 months ago

        You think the executive has power? Haha

        No senate has powers beyond policy, inquiry committees to reviel corruption ect list goes on. Checks Nd balances

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          9 months ago

          No, that is the original meaning of having three branches, the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. If any of them are not doing their job the other two branches are supposed to hold them accountable (supposed to being the operative term here). I was just saying that the senate was not established as a system of checks and balances against the house of Representatives, but rather as a compromise so that smaller states wouldnt necessarily be completely beholden to one’s with much larger populations.

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            9 months ago

            No its their to hold the house to account. The focus of states have and always will be localised.