On the eve of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, two-thirds of Americans say the system of checks and balances that divides power between the White House, Congress and the courts is ...
Equating controversial or legally contested executive actions with the collapse of 250 years of constitutional democracy ...
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 ...
Does our Constitution allow the government to break into someone’s home or place of business without a warrant? Does it allow ICE agents to use force, even lethal force, against law-abiding protesters ...
Editor’s note: Lee Hamilton is a distinguished scholar at the IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and senior advisor for the Indiana University Center on Representative ...
Regarding the recent events in Venezuela, what has happened to our system of checks and balances in the United States government? It seems that the man who is now president can act unilaterally in any ...
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