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

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

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 ...

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

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

A recent survey found an alarming statistic — 70% of Americans would fail a basic civics test. An upcoming event at Marquette ...

Resolves legal disputes between private parties, between private parties and the government, and between different branches of government. Checks the Legislature: Strikes down laws that are ...