That, of course, supposes that the legal system has not been corrupted by the same lust for power. The Supreme Court has proven time and again that it cannot be trusted to interpret the Constitution accurately. Roe v. Wade is a perfect example. (Actually, the job of the SCOTUS is to interpret law in light of the Constitution, not to interpret the Constitution itself)
The ultimate form of checks and balances lies with an armed populace. Virtually all of the debates we have on this forum can be linked to the government's encroachment on the 2nd Amendment protection of our right to keep and bear arms. If the government can disarm us, they can govern with complete autonomy. We would have no recourse. Lawyers and lawsuits against the government would be meaningless.
Don't you third party malcontents get it, yet? The world isn't a perfect place and the people who populate it, aren't perfect either. You guys are dense, dense, dense!!! All you do, is point fingers and claim corruption throughout the federal government. This is typical, doom and gloom-the sky is falling rhetoric, from people who have no answers, but enjoy fingering those people, who may disagree with them.
If that's what you believe, then run for cover "chicken little" and take all the other little "chicks" with you. Let the adults handle the tough stuff. The Founding Fathers didn't cut and run when the going got tough. This conservative ain't pointing fingers and isn't running from anything. You guys are truely lost and have no understanding of American politics, or how to make the system work for you.
The idea that our second amendment rights are more important then any other of our Constitutional rights, is ridiculous. The entire Constitution is critical to the survival of our Republic. Take away our freedom of speech, or freedom of religion and there will be upheaval throughout the land.
From the Mao-Mao School of Political Science? According to the ideologues, the real tragedy would be if the bullets represented a majoritarian opinion.