Opinion: Trump’s trampling of the Constitution is largely attributable to the demise of checks and balances, seen by the ...

Editor: We don’t necessarily have parties with hamburgers and hot dogs on Sept. 17, but we should make time to celebrate a momentous event. It was that day, 238 years ago, our Constitution was signed.

The Kansas Legislature overrode a record number of Governor Kelly's vetoes in the 2025 session, raising concerns about the balance of power. The legislative supermajority's ability to override vetoes ...

The White House has operated a unified government since President Donald Trump’s January inauguration. With Republican majorities in the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and ...

WASHINGTON – American democracy hinges on the idea that each branch of government prevents the others from taking too much power. Trump has demanded Republicans in the U.S. Senate agree to "recess ...

Friday was Constitution Day by act of Congress in 2004. It supplanted Citizenship Day which had been set for Sept. 19 but I ...

To those of us who have taken liberal democratic values for granted like air, President Lee Jae-myung’s unfamiliar constitutional perception came as a sudden and disconcerting shock. At last week’s ...

A system of checks and balances has been critical to the success of the United States Government for 250 years. “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” James Madison stated, and thus the ...

We need states’ rights, but we also need leaders who speak the truth. When platitudes are spewed by someone ignoring federal ...

(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Legal experts say President Donald Trump's earliest days back in office show that he will be testing the limits of Presidential Power and checks and balances. David Applegate, a ...

(TNND) — Most Americans think it’s "too risky" to give presidents more power, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. The poll, conducted Jan. 27 to Feb. 2, found that 65% of people ...

I chose this title, not to discuss the three branches of government which are traditionally referred to as the checks and balances of power. I am going to address the often ignored fourth branch of ...