How does the principle of checks and balances aim to maintain appropriate power in federal branches?

Checks and balances, principle of government under which separate branches are empowered to prevent actions by other branches and are induced to share power.  Checks and balances are applied primarily in constitutional governments.

john locke is most associated with the idea of consent of the governed which is the idea that the government is only valid if it has the consent of the people who are being governed.

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