1 sentences with 'safeguards'

Example sentences and phrases with the word safeguards and other words derived from it.

• « Whereas the founders conceived of America as a republic, not a democracy, and had placed safeguards such as the Electoral College in the Constitution of 1787 to prevent simple majority rule, by the early 1820s many Americans embraced majority rule and rejected the old forms of deference that were based on elitist ideas of virtue, learning, and family lineage. »