Discover what the checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution are. Learn how it ensures that no single branch of government ...

Checks and balances, our teachers taught us, were America's ace in the hole. Human beings are highly fallible and easily ...

Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive and judicial branches provide balance and prevent each other from growing ...

OPINION: It is impossible to think of a major military action that has been so poorly justified to Congress and the public as this one.

For more than two centuries, amendments have allowed our Constitution to grow with the country. The 13th Amendment, for instance put an end to slavery, while the 19th gave women the vote. It was ...