Community Impact

As federal budgets are being sharply reduced and agencies dismantled, the effects are rippling across the country—often in unexpected ways.

There has been, since the 1970s, a push towards giving the President near absolute power expressed through what is described as the unitary executive power. Recognizing the corrupt nature of unchecked power, the Founders and writers of the Constitution designed a system of government with co-equal branches, creating a system of checks and balances.