What are the advantages of horizontal power sharing ? Explain with the help of examples.

Pravash Ranjan Das · 14th Apr 2020 .

Tilotomma Nayak · 05th Jul 2020 .

(i) The power that is shared among different organs of government equally is known as horizontal power sharing.

(ii) Horizontal power sharing places all the organs of the government, i.e., legislature, executive and judiciary at the same level.

(iii) Under this kind of power sharing no organ can exercise unlimited powers.

(iv) This system is also known as system of checks and balances.

(v) For example, in India, though the ministers and government officials exercise power, but they are responsible to the parliament or state legislatures. Similarly, although the judges are appointed by the executive, but they can check the functioning of executive of laws made by the legislatures.

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