Separation axiom

Imagine finding out that you are pregnant right now and you are in college, barely making any money to even support yourself. Would you keep the baby or abort it? Abortion is one of the most controversial issues in the world. Everyone has different issues that they deal with on a daily basis so we do not know their full story on what goes on in their life. Abortion is a way of providing women with a choice that they can terminate the pregnancy if they have too much on their life and cannot…

The courts are an essential piece of the American political system created by the Framers of the Constitution, despite the fact that the Framers originally considered the judicial branch to be the “least dangerous branch” of government because it lacked the power “of the sword and of the purse” (Hamilton 1778). However, the Supreme Court has proved itself to be a powerful political actor with the capability to make a profound impact on policy when conditions are ripe for it to do so. Nearly all…

National security and the protection of a state’s citizens is a primary duty for a government. The protection of human rights is also a great responsibility and central to having a modern democracy. A government though must sometimes restrict the human rights of some of its citizens in order to protect the state and its people. The judiciary has a role in deciding when to intervene in the restriction of the human rights of the citizenry when it feels the government has gone too far. In this…

The Executive Branch of government has the responsibility of enforcing laws. The Executive Branch has quite a few checks and balances over the Legislative Branch of government. The Executive Branch has the power to discard any bills, even if the Legislative Branch wanted the bill to pass. The Executive Branch also has the power and control to call any important or special Congress meetings. The Executive Branch can suggest any legislation and can attract people about legislation and other things…

3 Branches of the Government When the founding fathers formed the Constitution they wanted a government that did not give one person too much power. In the Constitution it states that the government to separated into three different parts. Each branch has its own responsibilities and tasks they have to perform to help the country succeed and make sure its citizen’s rights are not ignored. The three branches are Legislative, Judicial, and Executive. All three branches use a system of checks and…

Decision in Philadelphia: the constitutional convention of 1787 primarily revolved around analyzing the vast array of ideals brought to the convention in the attempts to create a free and prosperous United States of America. Being one of the more active members, a great majority of the book concerns itself with James Madison from Virginia but also examines the ideals of Hamilton, Paterson, Pinckney among a handful of others. Other ideals brought about by the other 54 members concerned problems…

The Three Branches Paper Have you ever wondered how the three branches that makeup our government works? For starters, the three branches are the Legislative branch, the executive branch and the judicial branch. The three branches were made to distribute power among our government. This makes it where there is not one man or woman with complete power over the country. There are many responsibilities for each branch of the government. To begin with the legislative branches responsible for…

Society without laws would be absolutely chaos. Everyone would run wild with no control from anyone. This is where the Legislative Branch of the United States government comes in. The power to make laws is given to the congress, which also represents the legislative branch of government. There are a few ways that the legislative branch checks on the other two branches of government. The best example of this is how the legislative branch has the power and authority to investigate national…

The Three Branches of Government In the United States, our democratic system of government consists of three branches: the Judicial branch, Legislative branch, and the Executive branch. Each branch is responsible for a specific section of government and are meant to work for the betterment and protection of the citizens they represent. The Judicial branch is responsible for ruling if cases are constitutional or unconstitutional and is the head of the U.S. justice system. States are represented…

In past 30 years Canadian courts are struggling with the Charter’s emphasis under section 11(b) that “any person charged with an offence has the right to be tried within a reasonable time”. There has been still not any clarity what is “reasonable time” despite courts has described some factors to determine it. The most important case with reference to reasonableness was R v Askov (1990), where the Supreme Court held (9-0) that accused rights have been violated under section 11 (b) of the Charter…