Checks and balances, our teachers taught us, were America's ace in the hole. Human beings are highly fallible and easily ...

There are many good reasons our government is based on three “separate but equal branches.” The men who wrote our Constitution 250 years ago had just fought a bloody war against an incredibly powerful ...

OPINION: It is impossible to think of a major military action that has been so poorly justified to Congress and the public as ...

The GOP in Congress nullified the legislative branch this year by failing to stand up to the president’s actions, even when those ran counter to the Constitution, such as his decisions to cancel ...

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 ...

Troy’s all-Democratic City Council is ready to get to work after officially being sworn in. The new members are prepping to ...