Explain how the process of a bill becoming a law demonstrates checks and balances the two chambers of Congress exert on each other and the checks and balances between Congress and the executive branch.

The system of checks and balances in government was developed to ensure that no one branch of government would become too powerful. The framers of the U.S. Constitution built a system that divides power between the three branches of the U.S. government—legislative, executive and judicial—and includes various limits and controls on the powers of each branch.