The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.
Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.
Government and other scientists have identified hundreds of chemicals that are linked to diseases in small concentrations and that are unregulated in drinking water or policed at limits that still pose serious risks.
It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.
That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.
My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
We have a lot of things we give away to people who are very, very wealthy in this country. And I'm not sure that our federal government can afford that.
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.
I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.
The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.
I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.
