Syreeta Minor
Discussion Board Unit 2 Resubmission
The Branches of the United States Government
What are the 3 Branches of Government and Explain?
The Government is composed of three distinct branches: legislative, executive, and judicial whose powers are vested by the U.S. Constitution in the Congress, the President, and the federal courts including the Supreme Court respectively. These three branches consisted on three levels that focused on a different aspect but they came together in order to be able to help govern a nation effectively. The world we live is in is ran by one man whom we call the President of the United States but he has a power team that helps him come to the many decision in the world. (cited from governmentsearches.com)
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shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
Compare and contrast how state and local governments mirror the 3 branches of the U.S. Government. Do the 3 branches of state and local governments function in the same manner as the federal government versions? Explain.
The local and state governments mirror the 3 branches of the government in many ways. As U.S. citizens we all have rules and laws that we have to abide by or we will suffer the consequences. There is no where that you can live and not have any rules to follow so in other word you follow them or if not you get in trouble and depending on what type of trouble you get it in will determine your punishment.
Yes, I think that 3 branches function in the same way as the federal government. In this world we live in I have not seen a different way to govern that has been somewhat efficient. No matter how things are said or worded we all will have to follow the rules the same way regardless.
Why is the U.S. Constitution considered the supreme law of the land? What is the Supremacy Clause and how does it relate to current
An example of this would be that the federal government has control over the military, foreign policy, our postal system and the monetary policies. The state government has the responsibility for the police/law enforcement, road building and the schools.
The modern day federalism that is applied today is structured like that of the Connecticut federalism. A general court in Hartford acts like a central meeting place like that of present day Washington D.C.. This General court has the ability to rule over the towns of Connecticut, but the locals of a town may provide input to their public officer and he can provide the central court with this information. The general court is not to be mistaken as an absolute rule. An example is found in section 11 of the Fundamental Orders. The general court may distribute funding to the towns, and they may distribute them as they please. If this was a dictatorship, the general court would tell the local governments how to distribute their funds.
The American government is comprised of three different branches: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branch. Each one of the branches is essential to the government, and the other two branches. Each branch plays an important part in making sure the other two are doing what they are supposed to be doing, as well as making sure its own duties are getting done. Without these three branches America’s government would be chaos.
national government, Congress is the legislative branch. The Executive branch is led by the President and the judicial branch is run by the Supreme Court (SCOTUS). Each branch of the national government has power over each other and can check each other. Congress makes laws for the entire country. The president (executive branch) carries out the laws that congress makes. The judicial branch interprets how the law should be read. Each branch has separate jobs (separation of powers). For the state, governors have the authority to issue executive orders. This means that they can veto the legislation they enforce state laws instead of national laws. In the state, the legislation branch consists of two houses which are considered bicameral. The judiciary branch of the state government is the state courts. The state and national level of government basically check each other in the same ways at the legislative
In brief, the United States government consists of three branches of government. These branches- the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative are outlined in the Constitution. Without these, the country would not run smoothly, nor live up to the full potential of the great United States of America.
Phaedra Trethan. (2013). The Three Branches of US Government. Retrieved November 25, 2013, from About.com US Government Info: http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/usconstitution/a/branches.htm
The basic idea between the creation of the three branches is based upon “checks and balances.” No branch should become so powerful that it over-takes either of the other branches. This also brings out the point that neither one of these branches, nor any person holding office in one of them, can exercise power belonging to either of the others. The legislative branch creates the laws, the judicial branch reviews the law, and then the executive branch enforces the laws. All three branches are interrelated, each branch overlaps but serves separate purposes.
The legislative, executive, and judicial branches represent the constitutional infrastructure foreseen by the Founding Fathers for our nation 's governing body. Together, they work to maintain a system of lawmaking and administration based on checks and balances, and separation of powers intended to make certain that no individual or embodiment of government ever becomes too controlling. America is governed by a democratic government or a democracy which is a government by the people, in which the power is established in the people themselves. The people then elect representatives who carry out their power in a free electoral system. The United States government’s basic claim is to serve the people and only through a combined effort can we
Many similarities can occur between the state and federal governments. State governments function like miniature federal governments. They have legislative, judicial, and executive branches,(although the three branch structure is not required) and they both go through many of the same law-making procedures. Each state tries to function as its own government, while following the Federal guidelines.
National, Local, and State governments work together cooperatively to solve common problems rather than making separate polices. They work more on an equal level to get things fixed. This type of federalism is hard to tell where one type of government ends and the next one begins. National and state governments are independent and interdependent with an overlap of functions and financial resources. It is difficult for one to accumulate absolute power with this type of federalism.
Then there is the state government which are responsible for governing affairs within their borders, and carrying out federal laws and programs at the state level. They are governed by their own constitutions and retain any rights that the U.S. Constitution does not exclusively grant to the federal government. The state government is limited as they cannot form alliances with other states and must honor and respect the laws and institutions of the other states. And finally there is the federal government which is the central and highest level of government in the U.S. It is divided into three branches and each branch has its own rights and power to check and balance the powers of each branch. The federal government has the power to regulate taxes, establish federal welfare programs and make laws in the interest of the nation as a whole. There are also limitations set to the federal government’s authority, as they cannot ask local law enforcements agencies to do minor administrative jobs. Although all levels of government have their own responsibilities there are limits to interfering with other governments
...ponsibilities that each must uphold, for an organized but powerful government. Although, each branch objectives are different, each branch takes part in determining whether a bill becomes a law. This shows that a government broken down into branches justifiably serves our country balancing the powers of our government.
Items that I have learned this week, were policymaking at the state and federal level, law making and the three branches of government. This includes the steps involved in making law and the committees where the decisions are made. I also learned about the legislative branch, were laws are made, the executive branch, which involves the presidency and the judicial branch that includes the court system.
Our government is set into three different branches to help enforce laws in our country. There is the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judicial branch. Each branch has their own responsibilities. The legislative branch makes the laws of the country. The executive branch takes those laws made and enforces them. Finally the judicial branch interprets those laws and reviews them to make sure they are constitutional.
2 The Tenth Amendment of the US constitution states that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” State assign more responsibility over local governing bodies which are called “local- control states.” I think local control must be confined and monitored to avoid abuse and misapplication. It is very important to check and balance the power of the state and local government.