The same poll found that President Donald Trump’s approval rating has slipped to 45%, Congressional Democrats reached an all-time approval rating low of 21% and Republicans a record high at 68%. For ...

Conversely, changing birthright citizenship would require a constitutional amendment. This has been enshrined in the Constitution by the 14th Amendment and was upheld by the Supreme Court in the case ...

The Trump administration has asserted a new balance of power among the three formerly coequal branches of government. In its ...

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The Tennessean's letters reflect the views of the authors and add to public discourse. At issue: The end of checks and ...

If you only learned about the three branches of government, the Congressional Review Act doesn’t make a lot of sense.

A new Quinnipiac University poll finds that most Americans believe the system of checks and balances between the executive, ...

That podium is where Wilson set out his Fourteen Points for peace, speaking up against “force and selfish aggression.” Where ...

It's what enables the political ecosystem of checks and balances to create the conditions for democracy to exist and freedom to flourish. But if one of the three branches of government dominates ...

The accumulation of power in the same hands — whether elected or not — in the view of James Madison and others is the ...