Government: The Three Branches Of Government

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The branches of Government consists of three branches: the Legislative which talks about

the Court Case of Wesberry v Sanders and how one man’s vote should be equal to another’s (

one person, one vote). The Executive; it has the Court Case of Marbury v United States. It also

includes how a panel in the Court is trying to override Congress’ purpose to create a board to

practice law enforcement. Then the Judicial on the Court Case on Marbury v Madison with how

the British are now in their own little case that is similar to the case.

The Legislative branch consists of a government that assembles laws and consists of two

houses: a Senate and a House of Representatives. The branch presents Congress the power to

declare
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In the landmark that they had reached, the Supreme Court had noted that Article 1 Section 2 says

that no man or women will be a representative who will not have the age necessary and have

been a citizen of the United States for 7 years , but also will not be an inhabitant of that State in

which he or she will be chosen. The importance of Wesberry and the Court’s decision of “ one

person, one vote” could not be magnified.

The Supreme Court has kept the 5th Amendment of due process of law that has included a

fulfillment that the federal government can not hold back equal protection of every person. For

over half of a century now, the Supreme Court has made a decision that the aspect of equal

protection for each vote is one person, one vote. Everyone should and will have an equal

opportunity to effect the results of the election. In the court case of Wesberry v Sanders, the

Court had reported that the Constitution requires the one man vote to be equal as another’s. In

2000, the case of Bush v. Gore, the Court had said that, “ Granting the the right to vote
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The power of is vested in the

President of the United States, who also acts as head of state and the Commander-in-chief of the

armed forces.

The question of the President’s power had not yet been reached by the Supreme Court until

the Court Case of Myers v. United States in 1926. In 1876, Congress passed a law that required

Senate consent before the President could get rid of any first, second, or third class

postmaster.President Wilson had dismissed Frank Myers as the postmaster at Portland, Oregon

in 1920. Frank had then sued for the salary for the rest of his 4 year term and had based his

claim on the point that he’d been dismissed in violation of the 1876 law. In 1935, the Supreme

Court had then made a few limits in the President’s dismissing power in the case of Humphrey’s

Executor v. United States and had upheld their heir’s claim where it had based it decision’s on

the act of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This law provided that a commission member

could be dismissed only because they have neglect of duty or of misbehavior in office. Pg 397

A panel in the Court has carried out a new ruling that aims to override Congress’s

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