Within the separation of powers, each of the three branches of government has “checks and balances” over the other two. For instance, Congress makes the laws, but the President can veto them ...

Separation of Powers is a fixture of the federal constitutional system even as its contours are uncertain and contested. The theory envisions three principal powers of government—legislative ...

Congress and the president are answerable to the voters. The life-tenured judiciary is not. The purpose of an independent judiciary is to be the anti-democratic branch of the government. Its duty is ...