Outside of the federal government, the three-branch model remains a through line. The 10th Amendment to the Constitution ...

The framers of the Constitution feared too much centralized power, adopting the philosophy of divide and conquer. At the national level, they created three different branches of government to ...

But with a recent survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center showing that about a third of American adults can’t name the three branches of the federal government ... political indoctrination assume ...

–The court ruling Thursday night by U.S. District Judge JAMES BREDAR, a Baltimore-based judge appointed by former President ...

Judicial review is the concept that judges can strike down laws if they violate the Constitution. The notion came from the ...

It would dictate to Kentucky’s courts what level of scrutiny to apply to questions of law. It would prohibit the courts from giving any consideration to the views of the agencies who implement those ...

It rests on the principle of the separation of powers between the three fundamental branches of government: executive, legislature and judiciary. It's what enables the political ecosystem of ...

Making policy and passing laws is supposed to be difficult and should be left to the messy channels established by the ...

Resolves legal disputes between private parties, between private parties and the government, and between different branches of government. Checks the Legislature: Strikes down laws that are ...