The US government is built on the principle of checks and balances. The constitution outlines three branches of government. These are their powers.

Have you ever heard of anything referred to as the “fourth branch of government”? It’s a term that can be used to mean any entity that has influence over government beyond the three branches described ...

Knox County's fourth branch of government lends itself to ... The state has a watchdog agency ‒ the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury ‒ that conducts investigations and turns the ...

At the national level, they created three different branches of government to administer three different types of power. The legislative branch made the laws through a Congress of two houses, the ...

Kentucky has what is known as a “hard” separation of powers in our state Constitution. We have three branches of government intended to be coequal, and the construction of statutes ...