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 ...

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 ... as the idea moved slowly ...

Our Declaration of Independence was written in response to the many impositions of an abusive English king. The resistance did not originate at that time but began 560 years before. The Magna Carta ...

The framers of the Constitution created a radically new system of government featuring three equal but separate branches — ...

no single branch of government is more powerful than the other. This means that all three branches—legislative, executive, and judicial—are balanced against one another. Separation of powers ...

It should be free from encroachment by a legislative branch of Kentucky ... of powers in our state Constitution. We have three branches of government intended to be coequal, and the construction ...

The Constitution describes the duties and obligations of the three branches of federal government – legislative, executive and judicial – and the rights of the federal government and the states.

Our Constitution establishes three separate yet equal branches of government: legislative, executive and judicial. That division is meant to check and balance. The legislative branch makes the ...

the official journal of the government; and GovInfo, a platform for accessing and preserving official documents from the three branches of government. “With the Congressional Record, we are ...

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 ...