Checks and balances exist to keep a single branch of government from becoming too powerful. This is true for all governments that use this system.
The means extremes product property of proportion states
that the product should be equal. The means product is the product of the two
inner numbers of the proportion and the extremes product is the product of the
two outer numbers of the proportion.
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