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Checks and Balances are also known as the Separation of Powers. It was a system created in Ancient Greece and developed by the French philosopher Montesquieu that was intended to divide a nation's governance...

The US's separation of powers refers to the complete separation between the three branches of federal government; the legislature (Congress), the judiciary (The Supreme Court) and the executive (The Presiden...

Affirmitive action is a policy or program of increasing the representation of certain designated groups seeking to redress discrimination or bias through active measures such as in education and housing. Pro...

The creation of majority-minority districts has enabled African American representation to rise in the House. The President is able to use gerrymandering to create districts represented in the house that wil...

Federalism is a system of government in which a written constitution divides power between a central government and regional or sub-divisional governments. Both types of government act directly upon the peop...