It is well known that the United States is one of the most politically stable countries in the world. The result of the American stable political system was the creation of a system of checks and balances.
The United States was not the democracy we know it today. Rather, this state of the American political system is the result of a complex evolution that lasted more than two hundred years and was made possible by the flexibility enshrined in the Constitution.
The American Constitution is short - it contains less than eight thousand words. It does not regulate all the details of the functioning of the country, but it contains very clear principles that have to guide the President and Congress in the law-making process and the judiciary in the process of interpreting laws.
