BLUFFTON, South Carolina (AP) — On the first day of his American National Government class ... that about a third of American adults can’t name the three branches of the federal government, many think ...

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 framers (writers) of the American Constitution in 1789 went to great lengths to ensure that political power would not be concentrated within a single branch of the national government.

From deportation defiance to unchecked presidents, this op-ed unpacks how America’s legal system struggles to hold the most ...