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How can the congressional power to investigate provide for checks and balances among the branches of government

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According to the law, Congress is able to use its power to investigate and to oversee any operations of the many agencies in the executive branch.

This means that if the Congress determines that a federal program that is proposed by the white house is beyond conceived budget, they have the power, legally, to reject it in a way that it can't be passed and therefore, it won't be established. On the other hand, the President has the power to veto and with it, the president can pass some of these rejections

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By creating three branches of government, the agents built a "check and balance" system into the Constitution. This system was built so that no one branch of our government could become too powerful.all should get equal power

Each branch is restrained by the other two in several ways

The system of checks and balances is used to keep the government from getting too powerful in one branch.

hope it helps

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