the check and balances idea was derived from the ideas of who?

Question

its someone from the enlightenment time
choices-john locke,voltaire,rousseau,montesquieu(all philosphers!!)

Answer 1

The EXPRESSION is commonly attributed to Montesquieu
http://fixedreference.org/en/20040424/wikipedia/Checks_and_balances

But the IDEA (or cluster of ideas) has a much more involved history which coalesced in the 18th century.

For example:
"The obvious meaning of "check" was that of preventing an action, or exercising a veto: this was its original meaning in Nedham. In 1730, for example, we find James Pitt claiming that the three powers of the government "have a negative on each other" - the Commons being able to exercise a veto over the executive by refusing supply, or in Madison's phrase, employing "the engine of a money bill." Montesquieu, writing in French, talks about each power being able to empêche, arrête, or veto the other, and from him there derived a lengthy tradition which assumed that the executive must be able to exercise a veto over the legislature"

http://www.constitution.org/lg/check_bal.htm

Answer 2

Actually,since ancient times,there have been those men who started out with the best intentions,but were seduced by power and ended up creating their own dictatorships thru violence.
When our forefathers created our nation,they didn't want to end up as ANOTHER example of democracy that failed. So, a system of checks and balances was created to allow all federal agencies to see what the others are up to (especially the military) so that no one person or agency OR branch of the military could try to seize power to overthrow the government.

Answer 3

Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn

Answer 4

You can see the beginning of it in the ideas of Lord Halifax the "Trimmer".