PORTLAND, Maine (WGME) -- Maine Senator Angus King says the Republican Party is allowing Donald Trump to have too much power.

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 ...

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A just-passed Senate resolution seeking to undo new tariffs on Canada hopefully emboldens the legislative branch to ...

“At the federal level what we’re seeing is the executive branch trying to pull legislative power into its own hands ... concentrate power in the Legislature.” Kaul said that checks and balances and ...

While the U.S. Constitution, our nation’s basic document, intended to create co-equal branches of government ripe with checks and balances ... the administrative and legislative branches ...

We have three branches of government because we don ... Our government’s system of checks and balances is based on the idea that the dispersal of power protects the public, and that absolute ...