It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices [checks and balances] should be necessary to control the abuses of government. . . . If men were angels, no government would be necessary. This passage says that the government is necessary because . The passage states that checks and balances are needed to

The quote below is an excerpt from the charter of the united nations: "the purposes of the united nations are: to maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace . " source:this section implies that the united nations is prepared to do what to keep world peace?