This is particularly so of criticism of one branch of the constitution by another: can you imagine an America in which congressmen were barred from criticising the president or the Supreme Court?

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This time he tried to use the executive branch to destroy the Honduran constitution.

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Because there, the courts have said under our Constitution that the executive branch's Constitutional authority - to answer the question of one of your previous callers - to protect classified information comes into direct conflict with the criminal defendant's right to a full and complete defense under a number of amendments to our Constitution.

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The articles of impeachment before us are based on materials, the so-called Starr Report, compiled by an outside prosecutor, not by the legislative branch itself, which has under the Constitution the 'sole' responsibility for impeachment.

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Because that's the power of the purse, and under the Constitution it rests solely with the legislative branch.

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The judicial branch must expressly find in the enumerated powers granted in the Constitution that the government is allowed to take a certain action.

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The Constitution's "speech or debate clause" bars the executive branch from executing a search warrant for non-legislative materials in the office of a member of Congress.

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Will we have a judicial branch that enforces the limits on government power that appear in the text of our Constitution, while deferring to the people and their elected officials in cases where the Constitution permits such action?

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The Constitution's framers envisioned the judiciary as the "weakest, " "least dangerous" branch of government.

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