The Accelerated Passage Process

Lastly, the bill id introduced to the president and they have ten days to veto the bill or sign it into a law. This process usually takes months, but in the case of an Accelerated Passage process, a bill can get to the president within ten days. However this does not occur often.
The executive branch is the second branch, where laws are put into place. Under the executive branch are the President, Vice President, and the Cabinet. As far as power goes for this branch, the President can veto a bill brought to him. Since the President is the Head of State he must also do certain task. He must “host” and attend several different ceremonies, for example……He must also be the biggest supporter in a variety of organizations, and participate in things

across the country that show his support.
The President has very important task to do, therefore if something were to happen to him, it would be very crucial to follow the 25th Amendment. This amendment outlines the process of putting someone in place of the President in this event.
Even though the President is in charge of many important things, the White House has a staff that he trusts with certain things.

This group of people is called the Executive Office. The Executive office has many different task and other offices that go on within it, for instance one of these would be the office of the first lady. In each of the offices, the staff does the specific task they are appointed to. However, the staff in this office does not have the power to aide in important decision making. The people that the president goes to are people of his presidential cabinet. These people are head of fifteen different departments. The department of state, treasury, and defense are the first departments in the line of succession to the president. The people in these departments give advice to the President on their specific

department.
While the President gives many speeches throughout his term, the State of Union Address is one that occurs to give Congress and America an update on the current status of the economy and other important topics. It is written in the Constitution that the President must do this annually.
The third and final branch is the judicial branch. Under this branch is the Supreme Court. This is where decisions about laws and other topics are made final; they’re not questioned or overruled by anyone. All other courts must follow decisions made by the Supreme Court. They also have the power to send something back to the president if they see it as unconstitutional. This is called judicial review. The judicial branch can state something from the other two branches to be unconstitutional; this could even mean that a law wouldn’t get passed by the judicial branch.
One of the main things that the judicial branch does is arguing cases in the Supreme Court.

These cases must involve a matter of federal law or be within the control of federal courts. Most cases that come through are ones that the justices can all agree on the decision of the lower court or they agree that it has no significant point of law. The cases that do get brought through must go by the “the rule of four”. This is the rule that four out of the nine justices must think a case should put on the Court’s list of cases to be heard.. However there is still not many cases that make it to court. Most of the cases that do reach the Supreme Court are by writ of certiorari, which means “to be made certain” in Latin. This is an order by the Court directing a lower court to send up the record in a given case for its review. Both sides of a case can petition the Court to issue a writ. If certiorari is denied then the decision of the case lies with the lower courts decision. If the Courts agree to hear the case then is argued in court. The Justices are given information on each case and lawyers of both sides are given thirty minutes to present their argument. After the case has been argued, the majority opinion is what stands as the ultimate decision of the case. The Supreme Court can hear up to twenty four cases in a two week

period.
An example of a case would be the Marbury v. Madison Case; a case against John Marshall and Thomas Jefferson. This case was considered a constitutional interpretation case, which means that it’s an argument that has to do with how the judiciary interprets the law. This case occurred after the 1800 election in which President Adams won. The new Secretary of State, James Madison was an appointed Federalist who refused to deliver a commission given by the president. Another appointee, William Marbury asked the Supreme Court to enforce the delivery of this commission based on the Judiciary Act of 1789 that let Court hear cases on jurisdiction. However the Court refused William Marbury’s case, stating that the relevant part of the Judiciary's Act was in conflict with the Constitution. Thus establishing the evaluation of federal laws constitutionality, or “judicial review”, as a power of the Supreme Court. Therefore Marbury lost, having based his case on an unconstitutional law.