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Most states require some sort of high school civics instruction. But with a recent survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center showing that about a third of American adults can’t name the three ...

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But with a recent survey showing that a third of American adults can’t name the three branches of the federal government, many think we should be aiming higher. Over the past few years ...

Donald Trump ran his presidential campaign promising to abolish entire federal agencies and departments, but it’s not quite ...

While the Constitution does not specify who must administer oaths, Chief Justice John Roberts is expected to swear in Donald Trump on Monday, continuing a two-century-old tradition.

At the national level, they created three different branches of government to administer three different types of power. The legislative branch made the laws through a Congress of two houses ...

The latest turn in the ongoing saga over TikTok in the United States has brought the balance of power among the three ...

The Framers understood that part of human nature is to amass, entrench and ultimately abuse power, so there must be disincentives to protect against bad behavior.

For nearly 250 years, the American system of government has been defined by the separation of powers between three coequal ...