Judiciary

2. There are three branches of government, the Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch, and the Judicial Branch. The first one, the Executive branch has lots of powers. The powers for this branch are; Carry out and enforce laws made by congress, make treaties with foreign nations, appoint certain important government officials, act as commander in chief of the armed forces, veto laws made by congress, conduct war and carry it out, and pardon people convicted by crime. The second one, the…

Checks and Balances is a system that helps make sure that no one branch gets too powerful. Checks and Balances goes a long way to make sure the government doesn’t get too strong. Do you know how Checks and Balances works? Heres how. The Legislative Branch checks the Judicial branch by proposing constitutional amendments to overrule judicial decisions. Have the power to alter the size of the Supreme Court. The Legislative Branch can impeach the Supreme Court justices. Impeach means to bring…

The government of the United States consists of three branches: the legislative, judicial and executive. The legislative branch, also called Congress, makes our laws and is divided into 2 parts, one called the Senate and the other House of Representatives. The judicial branch includes the Supreme Court where judges interpret laws, according to the Constitution, and can consider if laws passed by Congress are constitutional or not. The executive branch, administered by the President of the United…

Federalism, Checks and Balances, and Separation of powers are the same in the way that they all involve separation of powers. There is a division between Federal government and State government, which was one of Montesquieu’s beliefs that the government should be divided. Montesquieu wanted the government to be divided so that one branch wouldn’t have too much power, which is a very good belief. Federal government is in charge of currency, regulating commerce, national defense and foreign…

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…

The relationship between the State and Federal governments is complex and they are broken up into many different parts. Also the State and Federal Governments have different amounts of influence over the economy and the citizens. Another thing is that the government system and relationship between the two is very complex and controversial. This paper will discuss the relationship between the State and Federal governments and the complexity of the systems of government. The roles of the Federal…

Societies today are built on a form of social power. This power is typically handled in the form of government, but not all governments acquire power in legitimate ways. According to prominent sociologist Max Weber, there are only three legitimate avenues to social power: traditional, charismatic, and rational-legal. Traditional authority—or the ‘eternal yesterday’ as Weber puts it—is a dominant power which relies on tradition or custom. With this way of ruling, power is not challenged because…

Diversity is something we all encounter every day; while some might have a better opportunity at grasping anything such as a degree we are all humans and make mistakes. Some of us are smarter than others no matter how we look. Affirmative action is a topic we all have different opinions about. As defined by the Merriam-Webster Affirmative Action, “the practice of improving the educational and job opportunities of members of groups that have not been treated fairly in the past because of their…

This has been one of the most controversial topics that has ever existed in the US. It was so major that the Us Government itself had to step in and confront the situation. In the three branches of government several actions have been put in place. The Judicial Branch displayed a case on abortion and what it was about, ‘Roe v. Wade’, the Executive Branch shows how it treated abortion, and the Legislative Branch brought forward a law that could possibly stop abortion. The judicial branch states…

The Influential Media: The Watchdog of Our Country News media is the ways of communicating the news to the public through the newspapers, magazines, photography, television and social media. The news media should really only have the power to convey what events are happening around the world without the news anchors persuading us to change our own public opinion because of how they present the news. The media has become the fourth branch of government by having such a large influence on how we…