There are many good reasons our government is based on three “separate but equal branches.” The men who wrote our Constitution 250 years ago had just fought a bloody war against an incredibly powerful ...
Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa told Parliament yesterday that a decision and statement made by the Speaker amounted to a ...
Bill 1’s pre-emptive, systematic use of the notwithstanding clause is a vivid case. Meant as an exceptional tool, used with ...
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Checks and balances are dead

Checks and balances, our teachers taught us, were America's ace in the hole. Human beings are highly fallible and easily ...
Unprogrammed appropriations, as embedded in recent General Appropriations Acts, represent a grave constitutional distortion ...
Livingston's Eva Lighthiser and her 19 co-plaintiffs from around the United States are asking judges to reverse a trio of fossil fuel-centric executive orders Trump issued last year.
We are taught that our government is composed of three branches: executive,legislative and judicial. Purposefully designed, ...
In 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a pamphlet that gave voice to the discontent of a nation struggling to free ...
Plan to begin the process of cleaning up its zombiesEvery so often, you stumble upon a government document that makes you rub ...
The demonstration, organized in part by Indivisible Northeast Indiana volunteers, framed its demands around constitutional ...
A Theory of 'Eidocracy'For centuries, political philosophy has grappled with the fragility of freedom—how power, even when ...
The common throughline of the Trump administration's misdeeds — including the ICE shooting and Venezuela strike — is Congress ...