The "Baker definition" of guidelines for political questions is the most commonly referred document on the matter. The words, "textually demonstrable commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department," are usually referred to when deciphering if a case contains should be determined a political question. Although the concept of a political question seems vague and subjective, there is a unifying theory. The goal of the judicial branch is not to resolve power disputes within the separate branches of government, and if that is the primary factor, then the case is a political question. The unifying factor in each of the cases that were not deemed political questions was the harm or infringement of rights allocated to the people of the United

Although it seems to be simple qualifications, staying away from issues pertaining to the power in the other branches, the line is hazy. In Powell v...