Special Operations Executive

As the head of the executive branch, the president of the United States, holds a number of powers provided by the Constitution. These powers granted to the president are clearly outlined in Article II of the Constitution, and are referred to as formal powers. Formal powers granted to the President are the power to sign or veto legislation, command the armed forces, the ability to pardon, the power to appoint officials, negotiate treaties with foreign nations, and to convene Congress. Along with…

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…

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…

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…

There are a lot of things to learn in Political Science. It’s the study in which we learn about the branches of government along with historical context of laws and policies. Three subject areas I found most interesting this semester is pornography, presidential power, and death penalty. In this essay, I will briefly explain the three subject areas, identify one political problem out of the three, and present a solution. When people hear the word pornography, we automatically think of nudity…

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…

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…

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…

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 that abortions should be taken serious and laws, and laws that blocks them are…

than the other two. The media is often watching the every moves of each of these branches of government and is sometimes considered as the fourth branch of government just because of the impact the media has on how we view what the legislative, executive and judicial branches are doing. Throughout the world, a lot of people refer to media as a fourth form of government because many people would know little to nothing about what is going on in the world if it wasn’t for the mass media. Political…