In order for the United State of America to have equal power, so that one person would not have more power over another. The Founding Fathers decided to write a constitution to divide the powers in to three branches. Each branches holds different types of responsibilities, but when they combine their powers, it will make sure the government is run smoothly and fairly, so that it is following the citizens’ rights. Each branches has an ability to keep the other two in check and that is how they would maintain balance amongst the three branches. The three branches are called Legislative, they are responsible for the law making, Executive, they are responsible for carrying out the law that the Legislative created, and Judicial, …show more content…
The current Governor of Texas is Greg Abbott. The requirement to become a governor of Texas is to be at least 30 years old, be a United State of America citizen, and have lived in Texas five years before the election to become a Governor is held. The powers of a Governor is to be able to veto a bill and when that happens, the bill is not turned in to a law and is returned to the Legislative branch, so the Senate and the House of Representative will have to do a re-vote. During the time of the second voting, if two-thirds of the majority votes then it will override the veto and it will passed as a …show more content…
For the Legislative branch, the way that they could keep the Executive branch in check by being able to override the vetoes that the President in the Executive branch has given out with two-third votes majority within the Congress and in the House of Representative. The President within the Executive branch is allowed to veto any laws that has been approved by the Congress, but that doesn’t mean a lot if they President decided to veto the law, but if they’re able to get two-thirds of the majority votes from both Congress and the House of Representative then it’ll go through whether the President vetoes it. If a law that is even passed by the Congress, but seems unconstitutional then the Supreme Court is allowed to declare the law as unconstitutional and it will not be passed.
While the Supreme Court holds that power over the law interpreting and to see if the law is constitutional for it be passed, but the President is the one who appoints the members of the Supreme Court. Even though the President is the one who appoints the members of the Supreme Court, the members of the Supreme Court that the President has chosen must be approved by the Congress. This is how the Check and Balance works with one another and keep every branches at the same level as one another. No branch has more power than one another because they each have some sort of power to keep the others in