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    As stated in the prompt for this essay arguments for judicial restraint often mirror those arguments for a formalist approach. A formalist approach is one that through law sets out to place limits on public actors. This definition of formalist approach is in an essence similar to judicial restraint. The similarity comes from many of the cases reviewed in our text where there were opinions of the court that exemplified the need to limit the exercise of the judicial power unless it was explicitly…

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    For this case, Obama’s administration stand for executive branch passed a bill but it haven’t went through an approval of The Supreme Court- judicial branch and discus by the Congress. Separation of Power always go with Check and Balance, which is “based upon the philosophy of Baron de Montesquieu. In this…

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    principle that states that the legislative, judicial and executive branches of government should be divided in power, and used as a whole power (Patterson, 1990). Due to the corruptive nature of power these branches should be separate departments. This was important in the shaping of America to help prevent corruptive government. • Checks and Balances is a system used to prevent any one branch of government from becoming…

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    The elder wand represents the executive branch of government. The wand and executive branch represent each other because they are both considered a weapon out of the of group they came from.…

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    feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones.” (Orwell 84). If the system of checks and balances was in use, this might not have happened. The animals could have been arrested by the executive branch if they were caught doing the crimes(which we soon learn that the animals never committed). Then they could go to court where the judicial branch would decide if they were guilty or not, instead of Napoleon just automatically declaring…

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    How do you think life would be like if the Constitution didn’t protect us and we had only a king? No government. In May of 1787, in Philadelphia, they had a document called the Articles of Confederation where there was no chief executive and no central government. While the delegates who made it were satisfied, James Madison was worried that it wasn’t good enough and the framers who made it would end up creating tyranny. `How did the document of fundamental principles protect us from one king or…

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    The Separation of Powers was written by Baron de Montesquieu, a French Enlightenment philosopher, to get rid of tyranny. It separates the government into three parts: The Legislative branch (Congress, the law making branch), the Executive branch (President, the branch that makes law official) and the Judicial branch (Supreme Court, the branch that explains the laws under the Constitution). The Founding Fathers wrote the “Separation of Powers” in the Constitution since their first idea, stating…

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    In comparing the powers of both the legislative branch of government to the executive branch of government, one must first understand why these branches of government was made, what each individual form of government does, how they are able to function separately and also, what their purpose is for the people of the nation. The first branch of government, the legislative branch, was first established in Article 1 of the Articles of Confederation. The first founding fathers of the nation…

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    American democracy is rooted on the rights of people because that is what a democracy is, giving people rights and letting them have a say by allowing them to vote. America has become more of a democracy than it ever was because it has given people more rights and freedoms than before. It has allowed way more people to vote and it has created more civil rights for the people so that America can be the most diverse, accepting, and democratic it can be. The Enlightenment started the basis of…

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    According to our class lectures the senate and the House of Representatives together make the legislative branch in our government. Our President, Vice President and Cabinet make up the executive branch. The judicial branch is made up of multiple court systems. The history of this action goes back to the court case of Brown vs. Brown Board of education of Topeka Kansas which occurred in 1954, the Supreme Court made a decision that still impacts…

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