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Congress passes legislation that requires all people to have health insurance or pay fines to the government. The president analyzes the legislation and signs it. Several different individuals challenge the law as unconstitutional and the United States Supreme Court agrees to hear the case. After the hearing, the justices declare that the law is constitutional. This is an example of:_________.

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the system of checks and balances.

Step-by-step explanation:

As government power is divided into three departments and branches i-e judicial, executive and legislation. Now check and balance system means to make sure that no branch should too much power and their is balance of power among three branches. So in this example the act of hearing a case show that this is check and balance system to make sure that no branch make a separate and over power system.

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