United States is an Independent nation, a nation governed by the people and for the people there for the Sovereign in the United State of America are the citizen of the united of America. The constitution was written to be held as the supreme law of the land. They also wrote the constitution because they feared that the newly free country might turn in to country with a “leviathan” government. Constitution of then United State of America gave limited power to the government and the rest to the people. Often people think declaration of independence is a declaration of a war, but what many people don’t realize is that declaration of Independence was also the preamble. It was a longer version of Preamble that Thomas Jefferson wrote and approved
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The power of the federal government is divided into three branches. Article 1 of the constitution is legislative branch and it has the power to make laws, set taxes, declare war, override vetoes, borrow money, print money, and regulate international and national trade. Legislative branch is made up of the senate and the house of representative. Next Article of the constitution is the Executive Branch, in another word the president of the United Stat of America. Executive Branch power consist of ensuring the law are executed, make treaties, grand pardon, appointing federal officers and the president is also commander- in- chief. Finally article 3 is the Judicial Branch and its job is to decide cases of constitutional law and federal law, cases involving ambassadors go straight to Supreme Court, and it also has the power to Judicially Review the constitution. This three branches of the government create the government to server people. It allows the power to be separated equally, where no branch of the government had more power then another. In order to pass a law or a three branch of government must come together, therefore no branch can work on its own. Furthermore not only they can’t work alone, each branch of government won’t be able to function without another. This trio check and balance itself; president can veto the bill, legislature can interpret the law and judiciary can approve. …show more content…
In the 1987 case of South Dakota v. Dole, for example, the Supreme Court noted that "the level of deference to the congressional decision is such that the Court has more recently questioned whether ‘general welfare ' is a judicially enforceable restriction at all." Instead, the courts have focused not on the constitutionality of spending programs themselves, but on whether various conditions imposed on the receipt of federal funds—conditions designed to achieve ends concededly not within Congress 's enumerated powers—were constitutionally
The power of the federal government is divided into three branches. Article 1 of the constitution is legislative branch and it has the power to make laws, set taxes, declare war, override vetoes, borrow money, print money, and regulate international and national trade. Legislative branch is made up of the senate and the house of representative. Next Article of the constitution is the Executive Branch, in another word the president of the United Stat of America. Executive Branch power consist of ensuring the law are executed, make treaties, grand pardon, appointing federal officers and the president is also commander- in- chief. Finally article 3 is the Judicial Branch and its job is to decide cases of constitutional law and federal law, cases involving ambassadors go straight to Supreme Court, and it also has the power to Judicially Review the constitution. This three branches of the government create the government to server people. It allows the power to be separated equally, where no branch of the government had more power then another. In order to pass a law or a three branch of government must come together, therefore no branch can work on its own. Furthermore not only they can’t work alone, each branch of government won’t be able to function without another. This trio check and balance itself; president can veto the bill, legislature can interpret the law and judiciary can approve. …show more content…
In the 1987 case of South Dakota v. Dole, for example, the Supreme Court noted that "the level of deference to the congressional decision is such that the Court has more recently questioned whether ‘general welfare ' is a judicially enforceable restriction at all." Instead, the courts have focused not on the constitutionality of spending programs themselves, but on whether various conditions imposed on the receipt of federal funds—conditions designed to achieve ends concededly not within Congress 's enumerated powers—were constitutionally