Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: How are changes made to the U.S.

A republican form of government is based on checks and balances created by the separation of powers. American students are taught this as a good thing. Tyranny is kept at bay by the American system of ...

This is ninth in a series of essays about the U.S. Constitution. The first three Articles of our Constitution detailed the organization and powers of the three branches of our federal government: ...

It's a fundamental tension in a democracy: How do you have majority rule in a way that also protects minority rights? Journalist Ari Berman says the Founding Fathers struggled with that question back ...

Thanks in part to our current contentious, partisan political climate, there have been calls for modifying or replacing the Constitution approved in 1787 at a convention in Philadelphia and ratified ...