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    "id": 1073356,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, the founders of this doctrine of checks and balances, particularly James Madison, were very clear. It is not about having checks and balances, it is ensuring that of all the arms of Government, there will be adequate checks to ensure that none of those arms is so strong to stifle the others from making decisions or from operating. It is not just about creating checks and all those other things. But there should be checks within the law and within the institutions so that the Executive does not muzzle the Judiciary; or Parliament does not muzzle the Judiciary and the Executive, which we could do by refusing to give them money. Similarly, they cannot muzzle us by telling us that there are things we can do or by rendering every law that is coming from Parliament to be unconstitutional even on very flimsy grounds. Those are the kinds of things that we need to get some sober-minded person. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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