Time magazine honored this ideal of checks and balances on power when it designated its 2002 Persons of the Year as the Whistleblowers— who “helped remind us what American courage and American ...

No system of checks and balances works perfectly. However, the original constitutional checks and balances have long since frayed.

Adler explains what is meant by constitutional checks and balances and how exactly it works.

The power to enforce our system of constitutional checks and balances rests with us.

First it undermines checks and balances between different branches of government. When a leader is revered to the point of cult worship, their supporters may view them as infallible and above the law.

For the second day in a row, President Donald Trump has felt the need to assure Americans that, no, he is not a dictator.

The Virginia Supreme Court will soon decide a case that goes to the heart of how we govern our public universities.

Checks and balances, or balanced limitations. sustain all fragile systems, including the ones you wish ended. Mutual constraint is an overlooked explanation for the origins and nature of life.

President Trump is testing restraints on his power to hire and fire, which is worth doing in many cases but raises hard questions in others.

Plus, a Star Wars Day nod.What happened to checks and balances for the Supreme Court? Plus, a Star Wars Day nod.