The Role Of The Three Branches Of Government In The United States

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Almost every day in our lives we hear, see, read or talk about something related with laws. But, for the people, actually for the laypeople, some questions emerge from this issue. How many laws had passed for the Congress in the last few years? Can the President make laws for its own? What is the process of making laws? What are the roles of the three branches of government in this context? Or even, what are these three branches? Legislative, executive and judicial, each of the three levels of government (local, state and federal), has the power divided between these three branches. Such division bases on the idea for decentralize the power, in other words, this ramification exists to ensure that any government sector has not enough power to control the people. In the federal field, the legislative is compound of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, this branch is also called Congress. The judicial branch at the federal level is the Supreme Court and the Lower Federal Courts. Still at the federal division, the executive branch is the President. Each of these has its roles and obligations, into the government perspective. As examples of what kind of duties and functions the three branches have, this paper is going to present an issue that …show more content…

Besides this, there are three sectors of government that work almost at the same level: Legislative, executive and judicial. All these branches has power, however none of this can pass over each other. As all the sectors of government are compound by human beings, there are many controversies within these divisions, like saw in the Obamacare case. The Congress divided exactly between Democrats (for) and Republicans (against). The Supreme Court saving the law by one vote of difference. These are evidence of the effectiveness of a democratic republican

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