Serbia and Montenegro spit definitely in 2006, although the country was before called "Serbia and Montenegro", and there were clear boundaries between the territories.
Kosovo is, depending on the point of view, a independent country in the Balkans, with an Albanian population, or a part of Serbia.
The thing is that Serbia has no de facto power over Kosovo, and Kosovo is de facto independent, but on the international stage not every country recognizes Kosovo as an independent country.
Answer:
the system of checks and balances is intended to make sure that no branch or department of the federal government is allowed to exceed its bounds, guard against fraud
Explanation:
and allow for the timely correction of errors or omissions.
I discovered that a key moment in Roman history was a very little-discussed raid by pirates on the Port of Rome at Ostia.
Rome was at that point the dominant world superpower, and there was no state in the world that would ever have dared to attack Rome. But the Romans were attacked by a group of stateless desperados who set fire to the Port. The flames may well have been visible in Rome itself. And this sent a shockwave through Rome, because if pirates could strike that close to the imperial capital, nowhere was safe.
And in this panicky atmosphere - an atmosphere of panic, I might say, which was deliberately whipped up by ambitious politicians - the Roman people took a series of fatal steps, surrendering some of their liberties and some of their control over their government. And in doing so, they sewed the seeds of the destruction of their own democracy.
And the more I looked at that event, the more it seemed familiar to me and the parallel with 9/11 - and in particular the response to it.
The Apartheid government of South Africa resulted in the forced removal of 3.5 million black South Africans between 1960 and 1986. This all white government made legal segregation possible in South Africa. This forced millions of individuals to move and started segregated public facilities. During this era, there was very little contact between white and black South Africans.
