What does the Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances do for America? Seperation of Powers seperates the three branches of government. Checks and Balances checks the different branches and balances it. The government is divided into the executive, judicial and legislative branches. Once broken down they all have different jobs they do. The executive branch is ran by the president. The executive branch also includes the Vice President and the Cabinet members. 15 major departments of the government makes up the Cabinet. The president approves and carries out the laws that are passed by the legislative. The executive branch propose legislation to Congress, enforce federal laws and serve as the commander in chief.
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This works by checks and balances. Each branch checks the other and creates balance. So that one branch does not have too much power. Which creates limited government because the different branches are limited in what they can do. They all hold power but not all the power. Checks and balances came from the constitution where the people did not want the government having too much control. “The power of each branch of government is checked, or limited, and balanced because the legislative, executive, and judicial branches share some authority, and no branch has exclusive domain over any single activity” (41). The legislative branch checks the executive by being able to impeach the president. Executive checks the legislative by veto legislation. Then the judicial checks the executive by saying if the actions of the executive are unconstitutional. Executive checks the judicial by being able to appoint federal judges. Last but not least the legislative checks the judicial by being able to impeach federal judges and overrule judicial decisions by proposing the constitution. Judicial checks the legislative by ruling federal and state laws unconstitutional. So just because each branch can make laws and different things do not mean they cannot be checked and cancelled. “Thus, for almost ever power granted to one branch, the Framers established an equal control in the other two
The judicial branch is …show more content…
This works by checks and balances. Each branch checks the other and creates balance. So that one branch does not have too much power. Which creates limited government because the different branches are limited in what they can do. They all hold power but not all the power. Checks and balances came from the constitution where the people did not want the government having too much control. “The power of each branch of government is checked, or limited, and balanced because the legislative, executive, and judicial branches share some authority, and no branch has exclusive domain over any single activity” (41). The legislative branch checks the executive by being able to impeach the president. Executive checks the legislative by veto legislation. Then the judicial checks the executive by saying if the actions of the executive are unconstitutional. Executive checks the judicial by being able to appoint federal judges. Last but not least the legislative checks the judicial by being able to impeach federal judges and overrule judicial decisions by proposing the constitution. Judicial checks the legislative by ruling federal and state laws unconstitutional. So just because each branch can make laws and different things do not mean they cannot be checked and cancelled. “Thus, for almost ever power granted to one branch, the Framers established an equal control in the other two