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"people in charge" doesn't just include elected officials, it also includes heads of corporations. Checks and balances has to apply to them as well, meaning tha

• AnthonyMouse 3y ago
  This goes both ways. The merchant class is one of the checks and balances on the government because it serves as a separate power base that should find it in its own interest to oppose government misconduct. One of the most important things for checks and balances to do is ensure the separation of commerce and state. Prevent the merger of state and corporate power. So they must restrain the government from inhibiting competition at the behest of crony incumbent corporations. Which requires you to restrict what kinds of regulation the government can impose, when that regulation impairs competition or otherwise advantages crony corporations. The last thing you want is to give a government official the power to do a corporation's bidding.
• Nevermark 3y ago
  And it should apply to parties. Especially in systems like the US where single party rule is actually attainable. Political parties work hard to centralize and consolidate power across disparate voting districts, pushing and incentivizing their elected members to be more loyal to their party than to their districts. Then the party as a coordinated whole just works for itself. The whole point of having diverse representatives from diverse districts gets nullified. National level seat limits, and cross state party limits for local elections, would eliminate any chance of single party rule and evaporate the dysfunction that spreads from seeking and holding that crown.