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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 gove...

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 Pr...

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 housin...

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 i...

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 th...