But with a recent survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center showing that about a third of American adults can’t name the three branches of the federal government ... as the idea moved slowly ...

At the national level, they created three different branches of government to administer three different types of power. The legislative branch made the laws through a Congress of two houses ...

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 ...

The framers of the Constitution created a radically new system of government featuring three equal but separate branches — ...

This is known as the separation of powers. The Constitution separates the power of government into three distinct branches. The legislative branch makes the laws. It is run by US Congress and it's ...

Knox County's day-to-day operations are run by eight officeholders who aren't subject to the same oversight as other elected officials.

We have three branches of government because we don’t trust ... as a bulwark against the tyranny of the majority. When the legislative and executive branches, meant to represent the majority ...