The dependency theory asserts that rich countries of the world should be "overdeveloped" while poor countries should be "underdeveloped". Reliance hypothesis is the thought that assets spill out of an "outskirts" of poor and immature states to a "center" of rich states, enhancing the last to the detriment of the previous.
Answer:
protect against one branch dominating
Explanation:
To prevent the government from becoming the tyrannical, the founding fathers believed that they need to implement a system that can overrule government officials at any time. The system of checks and balance is one of the method that they do to achieve this.
Currently, American government is divided into three branches. Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branch.
Our current system provide each Branch with the power to intervene with the decisions made in other branches. (For example, the legislative branch want to pass a law that is unconstitutional, the judicial branch could prevent it through the judicial review process)
According to the optimistic scenario, the South will abandon its military dictatorships and progress toward democracy as a means of gaining acceptance into the international community.
Democracy, a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a State.