Limiting Government Powers: Striving for Freedom

In today’s Society we face and see many political issues based upon the idea of limited government. We try to figure out ways to limit the state and national government powers because the more power they have the less freedom the people have. During this semester in my political science class, we learn how the state and national government powers can be limited through three political system. The separation of powers, checks and balances, and the federalism limits the power of the national government are the systems that gives the conception of limited government. These systems are which to bring more freedom to the people and less competency to the government’s control.
To begin with, power cannot be given to one individual, but it has to

be separated among many groups and people. Framers, the public and other groups like the federalist begin to avoid any new government to rule and gain more power and abusing it just for themselves. If there is too much power for the government, then the outcome will become a disaster and chaos towards the people who would want to have any rights. A French political named Baron de Montesqurieu postulate the belief of having a balance towards the government’s power. Meaning that the government needs to be divided among each other or else it will fall into one rule. Without any containment and control of the government’s power, then the nation will come a dictatorship rule which brings the reason why the national government is structure into three government bodies. With these three separate bodies, it can justly determine how limited the national government have in their possession.
As we have seen, the reason why the national government needs to be separated is that it brings the reason how the national government is incorporated into three different branches of powers.

The three branches are known as the legislative, executive, and the judicial branch. The legislative branch was directly designed to pass federal laws and controls the federal apportionment towards the nation’s money and provision. Also the congress is the bicameral legislature which has the power to declare war, collect taxes and entrench the lower court system. As for the executive branch, where the president was given limited power, it establishes who will be the Supreme Court judge and the federal court. The president can negotiate treaties with other countries and prosecute laws. And lastly the judicial branch, which decides the judicature of laws, analyses the lower court decisions and fixed any problem between the federal and state laws. By these means, each of these branches tend to develop a relational and balance towards each other’s power. Their power can be made useless with each other branches in their agreement with each other and adoption whether their decision is made right or

wrong.
The check and balances is one of the systems that is most help to limit the national government’s power. The Reason why is that it creates a interactive, social and cooperating system that can affect their own power in making a choice. Without the checks and balances, no one would have control on their power because they would choose their own way in making laws, choosing the Supreme Court judge, and rejecting or approving the president’s decisions. All the interaction of all the three branches are influence with their judgement making on whether they can agree with each other’s actions. The system is set up as a like a triangle, meaning that each of the branches can be over powered by two branches, but they can be overthrown against the other branches. So all of the branches gets either an approval of disapproval on their actions of their power. With all this said, this system is to be shown as a stability or an equilibrium on their type of power to each of the branches.
Therefore, the three branches create a relational system known as the checks and balances, are to influence and partake with each other. To start off, the legislative over the executive can impeach and reject the president’s treaties, giving the president less power. As for the executive over the legislature, they can veto the actions of the congress and influence the laws passed by the congress. To continue on, the legislative can determine the shape of the federal courts and the amount of judges in the Supreme Court. At the judicial against the legislative can simply establish laws but they cannot choose who determines the laws. And lastly, the relationship between the executive and the judicial is that the executive appoints the federal judges and the Supreme Court justices. With three branches they cannot take action unless they get approval from each other or decide whether they can agree a decision they make. It all becomes a impaction because on branch can dislike something and can create a blockade towards the other branch. This shows how the branches have limited powers because they do not have the total power of getting their own way; which all leads to a many agreements and disagreement of having to use their power to make political impressions.
For federalism, the word liberty means to have a special kind of freedom internal and external. Division of powers is one of the main focus for federalism and how the state and national government takes its role on using their power. They create a unitary system where the central government makes vital pronouncements, and the levels of the government have a small independent power. Federalism does see that the national government’s power should be limited, but they consider them to have a wide power meaning a outwardly separate power. This brings how determine federalism wants to have a strong national government and wants to rely on their choices and decisions they make every single day. Granting the them this kind of privilege would define how much power should the they have and much can they use it towards the state and the people.
In the final analysis, how federalism limits the power of the national government is determine on their express power, meaning that the Constitution have granted them and the president specific powers like lowering or rising taxes, decaling war, collecting taxes and legalize commerce.

In the same way, the congress are enabled to have implied powers, meaning they can make laws and can limit power from the other branches. The national government were given a certain amount of power which brings the necessary and proper clause, which was also granted to the congress. However the Constitution attempts to promote a certain kind of unity and the full and credit clause from the people. This brings a democracy towards the people’s rights and civil actions in their community and states which creates an influence to the government’s power. Limiting the power of the national government shows how people take the advantage of their own freedom and liberty to do what they want to do.
In conclusion, the limitation of the national government brings out how democratic our country has grown. Without any of the different system in the national government, people will have less freedom and rights. The national government brings an impact role in every person’s life even if they do not feel an impact. However how the government plays its role can create a benefit or a disaster. With these systems, the separation of powers and the checks and balances, carry out the heart of democracy and liberty

for the people here in America.