Checks and Balances Are Dead, by Ted Rall

Jan 9th 2026 12:00am EST

Checks and balances, our teachers taught us, were America’s ace in the hole. Human beings are highly fallible and easily corruptible. Because the Founding Fathers knew that — “The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted,” James Madison — warned they crafted the three branches of the new federal government as…

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