Importance Of The Judicial Branch

Thomas Jefferson once said “each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the cases submitted to its action.” The United States government system is divided into three different branches. These branches are Judicial, Legislative, and Executive. Each branch serves a different purpose, but at the same time the three branches work together to form the United States government. The Judicial branch evaluates laws with the court system under its wing. The Legislative branch makes the laws with the Congress, Senate and House of Representatives representing this branch. The Executive branch carries out the laws, this branch is controlled by the President, Vice …show more content…
This is the most important branch because this is the branch that makes the laws that the citizens must abide by. All these laws are written, discussed and voted on in Congress. The Senate is also a sub-group within the Legislative branch. The people vote on the Senate, so in turn, we elect who makes the laws that we must live by. This branch is the only law that can create laws or make changes to existing laws. The Legislative branch is also in charge of the annual budget for the government and has the authority to direct how federal monies should be spent. Some of this money is the peoples’ money, so this branch is the most correlated to the people of the United States. Not only that, but in times of crisis, the Legislative branch becomes the peoples best friend. The House of Representatives can impeach a federal official, including the president or a justice of the Supreme Court when there is something wrong happening. The Senate is capable of getting us out of war, and approve treaties that are negotiated by the Executive branch. Overall, the Executive branch is most involved in the everyday life of the citizens of the United States thus, it is the most important branch out of the …show more content…
Although, I would only change one thing about this branch. The President should not be the one in charge of picking the Supreme Court judges. This set up creates a bias court. For example, if a Democrat was our President at the time, he would most likely choose all democratic judges and that, my friend, would be no good. Not only that, but this weakens the participation that the citizens get to have in the government itself. One of the main ideas that our founding fathers based the Constitution on was to give the people more power and say in what happens in order to balance the power more efficiently and prevent tyranny. This whole process of the people not getting to pick the judges overrides that idea. The President already has enough power, giving them this power could potentially cause a mess within the cabinet. It makes it easier for the President to do illegal activity because he could choose who was below