The United States federal government, whether you feel it is a beacon of democracy or a symbol of modern political gridlock, was undeniably a revolutionary institution at its time of formation. Split ...

President Donald Trump has challenged our system of checks and balances. He shows little appreciation for Congress and the ...

Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive ...

To better secure the people’s liberty, the Constitution divides the power of the federal government among three separate and coequal branches. The judiciary is one of these separate and coequal ...

The Constitution provides for three branches of government, sharing sovereign power. In fact, we have a fourth branch, the sprawling administrative bureaucracies. They are nominally part of the ...

When the Founding Fathers wrote the U.S. Constitution, they envisioned three distinct branches of government; legislative, executive and judiciary. These were balanced with numerous checks and ...

Paul G. Summers is a lawyer. He formerly served as an appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues ...

Americans’ trust in the three branches of the federal government has reached a new low but remains higher for state and local governments, according to a Gallup survey. The polling company said ...

Here’s an irony that took over 700 years to see — British barons limited the power of a king, Americans rebelled against having a king centuries later, and in our times the U.S. Supreme Court sought ...