How to pronounce “checks and balances”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (politics) A system for multiple branches of government wherein each has some control over the actions of each of the others.
• (figurative) Somebody or something that ensures a system remains safe, honest, etc.
• [Verb]
• third-person singular simple present indicative of check and balance

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