At an NYU Law Forum on October 22, former government officials and constitutional law scholars examined the current state of the American system of checks and balances designed to restrain the ...

Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive ...

'A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth," Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison in a December 1787 letter. Jefferson was disappointed that the final ...

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The Tucson City Council took a stab at closing the so-called “gun-show loophole” last week when it voted unanimously to approve a resolution that requires background checks on all firearm purchases at ...