How does the idea of "checks and balances" contribute to american democracy?

Checks and balances allow for a more democratic system as no single person or even branch of government has the opportunity to take complete control of the government. For example, Congress can overturn a presidential veto with a 2/3 majority re-vote in both the Senate and House of Representatives. This prevents the president from vetoing everything, only advancing his personal agenda.

sir thomas more, venerated in the catholic church as saint thomas more, was an english lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted renaissance humanist. he was also a councillor to henry viii, and lord high chancellor of england from october 1529 to 16 may 1532.

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: