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 ...

Congress and the president are answerable to the voters. The life-tenured judiciary is not. The purpose of an independent judiciary is to be the anti-democratic branch of the government. Its duty is ...

We have three branches of government because we don’t trust one ... and balances is based on the idea that the dispersal of power protects the public, and that absolute power may, as the ...

The chief instrument of limitation is the separation of powers, the brainchild of ... friction and even jealousy among the three branches of government, thereby inducing fidelity to its core ...