The US government is built on the principle of checks and balances. The constitution outlines three branches of government. These are their powers.

The executive order gives the president more power over federal agencies that are part of the executive branch of government. Laerke Christensen Published Feb. 19, 2025 ...

Much of the litigation surrounding the new Trump administration turns in part on "unitary executive" theory - the idea that the president should have near-total control over the executive branch ...

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 ...