Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive and judicial branches provide balance and prevent each other from growing ...

The Founding Fathers presumed that the legislature and courts would keep an authoritarian leader in check. Were they right?

Regarding the recent events in Venezuela, what has happened to our system of checks and balances in the United States government? It seems that the man who is now president can act unilaterally in any ...

The new Ken Burns documentary, “The American Revolution,” provides a special opportunity to learn why our nation’s founders chose liberty and built a democracy based on three branches of government ...

Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House communications director turned investor, is warning that a cluster of "institutional" problems at home should worry Americans more than partisan food fights.

We hear about checks and balances first — and often last — in high school current events classes: Democratic republics have checks and balances which stabilize them, keeping them from spinning out of ...

Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive and judicial branches provide balance and prevent each other from growing ...