BLUFFTON, South Carolina (AP) — On the first day of his American National Government class, Prof. Kevin Dopf asks how many of his students are United States citizens. Every hand shoots up.

Young urban progressives are relegating the Democratic Party to a permanent minority — with iron-fisted control over our deep ...

Split into three branches, each sector is designed to check the others' power and balance it out so that no one branch can propagate tyranny. Within each of those branches are countless federal ...

The bill required undergraduates to take at least three credit hours in American government and read a series of major U.S. history documents, from the Declaration of Independence to Martin Luther ...

The Trump administration's actions in its first 100+ days have disrupted the balance of power among the three branches of government. The executive branch, under President Trump, has expanded its ...

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Everyday ethics: Balancing the branches of government The best way to serve the public interest is to have a legislature and judiciary able to keep a president in check.

Every student learns about the three branches of government in civics class. There's the legislative branch, the judicial branch and the executive branch. But in Tennessee, there's an unusual ...

The U.S. Constitution was crafted in 1787 both to establish a new central government and to limit it. Some of the limitations are direct, some are subtle and some are hidden.

Kids online safety reform was one of the most bipartisan issues in Washington. That might be changing under Trump. ...

We have three branches of government because we don’t trust one, or even two, to do the people’s work when it comes to a government of the people, by the people, for the people.Our government ...

Every student learns about the three branches of government in civics class. There's the legislative branch, the judicial branch and the executive branch. But in Tennessee, there's an unusual ...