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 ...

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 ...

If you have voted, you must be aware that each party dreams of full occupancy of the three branches of our government ...

His powers are limited by design ... federal layoffs leave TN readers uneasy about the economy The three branches of government − legislative, executive and judicial − are co-equal and ...

Legal experts are debating whether America is 'in' or 'edging toward' a constitutional crisis. What's really happening is that Trump is overstepping.

These policy changes and court rulings finding some EOs unconstitutional beg the review of two underlying legal issues: ...

Yet for Wilkinson, the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case poses an untenable threat to the judicial system. As the standoff escalates ...

Donald Trump's sweeping assertion of power since returning to the White House is testing the U.S. constitutional system of ...

It should learn the lessons of its own past. The Supreme Court at its worst yields to the darkest spirits of the age. At its ...

The chief instrument of limitation is the separation of powers, the brainchild of James Madison ... separation so as to enhance friction and even jealousy among the three branches of government, ...

The federal government was formed with three clearly defined branches, and that separation of powers was designed to enforce checks and balances. Local government is structured similarly to divide ...