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Paine believes the three powers of the English constitution are reciprocally checking each other. (6)

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False.

Paine argued that the supposed reciprocal checks among monarchy, aristocracy (the House of Lords) and the people (House of Commons) were largely illusory — the system preserved aristocratic and monarchical privilege rather than producing true mutual checks.