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 ...

Checks and balances, our teachers taught us, were America's ace in the hole. Human beings are highly fallible and easily corruptible. Because the Founding Fathers knew that — "The truth is that all ...

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 ...

We hear about checks and balances first — and often last — in high school current events classes: Democratic republics have checks and balances which stabilize them, keeping them from spinning out of ...