Explain the system of checks and balances in five sentences. include facts.

Checks and balances are counterbalancing influences that keep an organization and/or system balanced. The idea is to ensure that one power does not exceed another. This is not controlled by a single individual or group, but rather, a larger spectrum. An example of this would be the balance between the executive, judicial, and legislative branches. Checks and balances keep it so not one branch is more powerful than the other.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

adopted the practice of proskynesis, a persian court custom that involved bowing down and kissing the hand of others, depending on their rank.