The principle of checks and balances helps prevent any one branch of government from becoming too powerful. While this is of vital importance, what might be one negative effect of this system?

It is time consuming as important decisions will have to go through various layers of government before getting approval

Explanation:

Checks and balances as the name suggests are meant to act as checks on each branch of government and this has some enormous advantages such as preventing tyranny, nepotism, amongst others.

However, there is a disadvantage which is that decision making or policy making tend to take longer time to make because of the various machinations in government.

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explanation:

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