Knox County's day-to-day operations are run by eight officeholders who aren't subject to the same oversight as other elected officials.

The framers of the Constitution feared too much centralized power, adopting the philosophy of divide and conquer. At the national level, they created three different branches of government to ...

But with a recent survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center showing that about a third of American adults can’t name the three branches ... slow this down in House but had zero success,” Bart ...

The Constitution separates the power of government into three distinct branches. The legislative branch makes the laws. It is run by US Congress and it's made up of the Senate and the House of ...

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 ...

Branches of Power allows you to do something that no one else can: control all three branches of government! You'll have the power to write any laws you want about issues you choose. Careful ...

Resolves legal disputes between private parties, between private parties and the government, and between different branches of government ... Checks the Executive: House impeaches the President ...