Democracy/mechanism of check-and-balance

pov: Democracy came with the mechanism of check-and-balance, demanding constant disagreement/argument, which is oxygen for survival of democracy. Such practice is expensive, labor-intensive. Do you have a better way?

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• What are the checks and balances in a democracy? - Quora

  https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-checks-and-balances-in-a-democracy

  In a pure democracy there are no “checks and balances” - the majority can do anything they like. Such American (and other) ideas of a “Senate” not elected in the basis of “equal votes”, and a BILL OF RIGHTS beyond the reach of the “divine right of...

• Why are checks and balances necessary in a democracy ...

  https://www.answers.com/Q/Why_are_checks_and_balances_necessary_in_a_democracy

  The system of checks and balances was a new concept along with Democracy at the time that the practice was implemented in the 1780's. Built within checks and balances is the practice that the ...

• Democracy needs checks and balances. History teaches us ...

  https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/democracy-checks-balances

  Nov 11, 2016 · Democracy was understood to require not simply periodic free and fair elections but also human rights and the rule of law. Your neighbour's rights, your business But today, many people have come to see rights not as protecting them from the state but as undermining governmental efforts to defend them against the perceived threats of migration.

• checks and balances | Definition, History, & Facts ...

  https://www.britannica.com/topic/checks-and-balances

  Aug 26, 2019 · political system: Constitutional government …and by the doctrine of checks and balances that provides constitutional support for routine disagreements between the branches; in the British system the integration of legislature and executive is reinforced by the necessity for their constant agreement, or for a condition of “confidence ...

• Checks and Balances: Liberty, Metaphor and Mechanism

  https://www.constitution.org/lg/check_bal.htm

  On the other, as Gouverneur Morris's "every legislative check and balance," it derives from the view that in a representative democracy the greatest danger is that the legislature will acquire the defects of a popular assembly, and that if it does the executive and the judiciary may prove incapable of …

• Checks and Balances - Social Studies help

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  Another system that was developed was the system of checks and balances. Checks and balances, or the separation of powers, is based upon the philosophy of Baron de Montesquieau. In this system the government was to be divided into three branches of government, each branch having particular powers.

• Separation of Powers: A System of Checks and Balances

  https://www.thoughtco.com/separation-of-powers-3322394

  The system of checks and balances is intended to make sure that no branch or department of the federal government be allowed to exceed its bounds, to guard against fraud, and to allow for the timely correction of errors or omissions. Indeed, the system of checks and balances is intended to act as a sort of sentry over the separation of powers, balancing the authorities of the separate branches ...