Split into three branches, each sector is designed to ... As a prime example of checks and balances, members of the judicial ...

Within the separation of powers, each of the three branches of government has “checks and balances” over the other two. For instance, Congress makes the laws, but the President can veto them ...

Last year's annual civics survey by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center found that one-third of our countrymen couldn't name all three branches of government ... the ...