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 ...

Editor’s note: Lee Hamilton is a distinguished scholar at the IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and senior advisor for the Indiana University Center on Representative ...

Among the many pressing issues facing Americans today, such as the cost of living and health care, is a founding one: checks and balances. A new poll from the Public Religion Research Institute found ...