What are you? I bet most of the time you feel like an I not a we, a single unified being, or at least you’re most comfortable when you feel like that, not being of two minds. Doubt is a splintering ...

It also includes checks and balances to ensure that no branch becomes too powerful. Presidents can veto legislation that they don’t agree with. Congress can override the veto with a two-thirds vote by ...

Lee Hamilton is a distinguished scholar at the IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and senior ...

During his remarks from the Oval Office today, Donald Trump complains about checks and balances while raving about the unitary power that China's Xi Jinping possesses. "He says 'do it' and that's the ...

Ben Franklin warned that we had “a republic if you can keep it.” And the phrase that famous baseball announcer Mel Allen used to respond to a well struck ball headed for a home run — “Going, going, ...

Bruce Springsteen said, “The last check on power after the checks and balances of government have failed are the people, you and me. It’s in the union of people around a common set of values now ...

The Constitution’s checks and balances are not dead yet. Many federal agencies have taken to imposing fines without a jury trial. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled that this violates the ...

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 th ...

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