Comment by AnthonyMouse

> I just know the US Constitution had a LOT of people working on it and they covered a lot of bases.

A lot of this is more fragile than you want it to be though.

For example, the US Constitution was set out to have a weak federal government and have the state governments handle all the things that didn't specifically need to be federal, and one of the biggest checks and balances for this was that federal legislation had to pass the Senate and federal Senators were elected by the state legislatures. The Senate was the states' representation in the federal government, that's what it was for. Then the 17th amendment took it away, which was immediately followed by a persistent massive expansion of federal power, because the thing that was meant to act as a check on it got deleted.

Sometimes the checks and balances need more checks and balances.