Discover what the checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution are. Learn how it ensures that no single branch of government ...

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 ...

We have three branches of government because we don’t trust one, or even two, to do the people’s work when it comes to a government of the people, by the people, for the people. Our government’s ...