guardrail

Once people do this, they have greater respect for what I would call the guardrails of democracy, for protecting the voting process and everybody's access to it.

Bloom warns that there’s a danger in raising too many alarms about authoritarianism right now, because we still have some functioning guardrails.

The administration's aim here is to destroy the foundation of civil rights protections in this country — to erode guardrails preventing discrimination in housing, lending, employment, education, healthcare, and other areas of life.

“District teachers have experienced anxiety and confusion in knowing what is prohibited by the Resolution and fear extreme repercussions without guardrails for even accidental violations,” Justice Kathleen E. O’Leary wrote.

The self-imposed guardrails the government had imposed in these post-Brexit negotiations intentionally limited its room for manoeuvre.