Limits on Governmental Power

Principles that restrain how governmental power is used. An entry belongs here when its cited source describes a rule or arrangement that keeps government within bounds. Checks and balances is the arrangement in which branches of government can limit one another, so that no branch exercises power without answering to the others, and the rule of law is the principle that government itself is bound by law that is applied equally and made known in advance. The group lets a reader compare a structural limit on power with a legal limit on power.