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'''Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?''' is a Latin phrase, commonly translated as  "Who watches the watchers?", attributed to the Roman poet and satirist Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis, 55-127 CE).  
'''Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?''' is a Latin phrase, commonly translated as  "Who watches the watchers?", attributed to the Roman poet and satirist Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis, 55-127 CE).  




Modern liberal democracies try to solve this problem by the principle of ''the separation of powers''. No single group has ultimate power; the executive, legislative, or judicial arms of government all have separate and distinct realms, with interests that often compete and conflict, providing a complex network of checks and balances that prevent power being monopolised by any single group.
Modern liberal democracies try to solve this problem by the principle of ''the separation of powers''. No single group has ultimate power; the executive, legislative, or judicial arms of government all have separate and distinct realms, with interests that often compete and conflict, providing a complex network of checks and balances that prevent power being monopolised by any single group.
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is a Latin phrase, commonly translated as "Who watches the watchers?", attributed to the Roman poet and satirist Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis, 55-127 CE).


Modern liberal democracies try to solve this problem by the principle of the separation of powers. No single group has ultimate power; the executive, legislative, or judicial arms of government all have separate and distinct realms, with interests that often compete and conflict, providing a complex network of checks and balances that prevent power being monopolised by any single group.