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The Constitution creates a federal government that has a system of checks and
balances.
This system allows each part of the government to check, or limit, the power of the other branches. In the diagram below, the circles represent the three branches of government. The direction that each arrow points represents the way one branch checks another.
In the system of checks and balances, the president can sometimes use the power of executive privilege to withhold documents or information from a congressional investigation. Which arrow represents this check on legislative power?