Checks and Balances

Checks and balances

In the United States Constitution, there is a specific system designed to prevent one of the three branches from gaining control or much power. This system is known as Checks and Balances. The system has been put on the effect due to many instances over the course of the year history. The designed system of Checks and Balances is very open yet complex. For example, if the President executive is not fulfilling his responsibilities as a leader or behaving inappropriately, the Legislative Branch Congress can limit him through the power of impeachment. The Judicial Branch can limit his power through the process of judicial review. This is when a justice can declare a law unconstitutional. The Congress can propose a bill to the President that they feel he is not in the best interests of the nation. These are fundamental of government under which different branches are empowered to prevent actions by other branches and are formed to share power. The executive, the legislature, and the judiciary are the backbone of the government to carry out his duty and to fulfill the obligation of the nation interest.

The process of the appointment power that fall under the president, are nomination politics. The nomination politics take the process where the president formal appointee is received by the senate. The presiding officer then sends them to the nomination to the concerned committee where the committee chairs the schedule hearing. For the nomination to proceed to second level ,the majority members of the committee must then report that nomination to the floor. At this point, it depend with the senate majority on the floor to vote for the confirmation, thereafter the nominee will wait the signed commission...

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...ernment, or cabinet, ordinarily may dissolve the parliament. In one-party political systems, informal checks and balances may operate when organs of an authoritarian or totalitarian regime compete for power

Works Cited
• Henry J. Abraham, Justices and Presidents: A Political History of Appointments to the Supreme Court (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

• Henry J. Abraham, Justices, Presidents, and Senators: A History of the U.S. Supreme Court Appointments from Washington to Clinton (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999).

• Louis Fisher, Constitutional Conflicts between Congress and the President (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985).

• Joseph Harris, The Advice and Consent of the Senate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953).

• G. Calvin MacKenzie, The Politics of Presidential Appointments (New York: Free Press, 1981)