...that underlies the three branches of government establish by the Philippine constitution. a) Be able to explain the meaning and purpose of the principle of separation of powers. Separation of power describes the distribution of the executive, judicial, and legislative responsibilities of a government among separate and distinct branches. b) Be able to explain the status and the nature of the relationship of the three branches. The three branches of the government operates independently of the others. This is known as “the separation power” c) What is the principle of blending of power? Blending of power is actually sharing of power of the different department of the government whereby one department helps and coordinates with the other in the exercise of a particular power, function, or responsibility. 2. Be able to: a) Explain the principle of check and balance. "Checks and balances" is a concept set up in the whereby the various powers of any government are divided into 3 separate branches with no one branch having all of such powers. b) What are the purposes of the principle of the check and balance? The purpose of the principle of the check and balance is it guarantees that no part of the government becomes too powerful. For example, the legislative branch is in charge of making laws. The executive branch can veto the law, thus making it harder for the legislative branch to pass the law. The judicial branch may also say that the law is unconstitutional...
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...The Constitutional Convention was an important event because it is what lead us to the government we have now. The different compromises are what lead to the methods that were used and still being used nowadays The Constitutional Convention was a meeting that took place in Philadelphia in 1787. The purpose of that meeting was to rewrite the Articles of Confederation. There were fifty five men who were delegates, their purpose was to have the federal government strengthen. The delegates did not think that rewriting the Articles of Confederation would actually work out. Eventually they wrote the U.S. Constitution. George Washington was chosen to lead the convention. All of the delegates had to agree that every state would get one vote. They did not want anyone to know about what was going on during the convention meetings. The delegates made sure to keep everything a secret, anyone who was not a delegate were not allowed to attend any meetings. We have no written documents because they kept everything a secret of what had occurred during the meetings. The only details we have today is from a notebook that belonged to James Madison. However, James Madison is known as the “Father of the Constitution.” He had also helped write the federalist papers. At the Constitutional Convention James Madison had done a very good job. When the delegates had to decided to write the “Bill of Rights” he was against it. James Madison was afraid that the future people would just go by those...
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...system. Explain the different roles of the federal and state government. The American legal system consists of two separate levels of court, defined as federalism, which together administer and enforce the laws in the United States. Federalism distributes the government powers between both the federal governments and the state governments, which ensures that the power of the national government is decentralized. The US Constitution divides the federal government into three branches - legislative, executive, and judicial. The legislative branch, consisting of the House of Representative and the Senate, make laws, the executive branch, consisting of the President, Vice President, and his cabinet, carry out the laws, and the judicial branch, consisting of the Supreme Court and other courts, evaluates the laws. Additionally, each branch has the power to change acts of the other branches. The President has the power to veto laws passed by congress, Congress can confirm or reject the president’s appointments and can remove the president from office, and the justices of the Supreme Court can overturn unconstitutional laws. The State government is modeled after the federal government and contains the same three branches; however, each state has their own constitution, which is often more detailed than the federal constitution. All powers not allotted to the federal government are reserved for the state governments. In the state government, the executive branch is lead...
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...be able to: explain the structure, function, and powers of the U.S. government as established in the Constitution identify the roles of the three branches of government describe the constitutional amendment process interpret the intentions of the Preamble of the Constitution. STEP BY STEP 1) ANTICIPATE by asking students where the government gets it’s instructions. How does Congress, the President, or federal judges know what to do? Give students a moment to think, then randomly call on students to share their thoughts. 2) DISTRIBUTE one reading packet to each student. 3) READ through the first two paragraphs on page one with the class. 4) DISPLAY the transparency, Breaking it Down: The Preamble and explain the statement, phrase by phrase. The students should add the annotations to their reading. Also note that people living in the 1700s had different rules about capitalization than we do today. 5) READ the rest of page one, continuing through page three with the class. Explain that you will go into greater detail on the amendment process on the next page. 6) READ the information about the amendment process on page four and take the students through the various paths to the addition of an amendment to the Constitution. 7) DISTRIBUTE the tent foldable activity page and show the class how to fold it correctly. 8) PROJECT the Whose Job Is It ? Active Review Transparency, revealing one at a time. 9) ASK students to show the correct branch on their tent and...
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...Branches of Government Lori-Ann Toohey His/301 September 8, 2014 Bruce Franklin When our Founding Fathers put the Constitution into writing, our government also established a separation of powers as well as a system of checks and balances for those powers so that no one branch of government becomes more powerful than another. The three branches of our government are: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. To ensure the government is effective in its role and the United States citizens’ rights are protected, each branch has its own powers, each branch is also responsible for working with the other branches cohesively. The first of three branches that make up our government is the legislative branch. This is made up of the House of Representatives and Senate, known collectively as Congress. The legislative branch makes all laws, declares war, regulates interstate and foreign commerce and controls taxing and spending policies (house.gov, 2014). This branch has various organizations such as Architect of the Capitol and Library of Congress (house.gov, 2014). The legislative branch is responsible for the following checks over the executive branch: overriding presidential vetoes with a two-thirds majority vote, funding executive actions, removing the president through impeachment, Senate approves treaties and presidential appointments (Kelly, 2014). The legislative branch is also responsible for certain checks over the judicial branch such as creating lower courts...
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...Constitution guards against tyranny because it has a separation of powers, uses checks and balances, and it uses the division of power between central and state governments known as Federalism. One way the constitution guards against tyranny is by having a separation of powers. James Madison once said, “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may be justly pronounced the very definition of tyranny…(L)iberty...
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...American National Government Topic 1 American Government: An Introduction Assessment 1 Chapter 1 Directions: Answer the following questions after viewing the assigned Power Point presentation and reading related materials in the text. Be sure to use complete sentences. 1. Define government and politics. Compare these two terms and cite examples of each. Explain how the two terms are distinct but related to each other. · Government is the people who run the country. Politics is the process followed by the leaders of political groups who rule the country. Government implements the policies of the lands, such as with the judicial branch to enforce the laws, the legislative branch to create the laws, and the executive branch to perform national security duties. And politics are the tool utilized by the government. They both utilize political science which is the study of government and politics. While they both perform and aid the same basic function of running the country, politics is just the process while the government is the actual facility performing the tasks. 2. What is anarchy? Can anarchy ever a viable alternative to government, in your opinion? Why or why not? · Anarchy is living in a state of lawlessness. I believe it cannot, because humans do not function correctly without some type of structure. Without structure there will be total chaos. Murders and other unmentionable crimes will occur with no repercussions being put into place. 3. What...
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... Explain the different roles of the federal and state government. The American legal system consists of two separate levels of court, defined as federalism, which together administer and enforce the laws in the United States. Federalism distributes the government powers between both the federal governments and the state governments, which ensures that the power of the national government is decentralized. The US Constitution divides the federal government into three branches - legislative, executive, and judicial. The legislative branch, consisting of the House of Representative and the Senate, make laws, the executive branch, consisting of the President, Vice President, and his cabinet, carry out the laws, and the judicial branch, consisting of the Supreme Court and other courts, evaluates the laws. Additionally, each branch has the power to change acts of the other branches. The President has the power to veto laws passed by congress, Congress can confirm or reject the president’s appointments and can remove the president from office, and the justices of the Supreme Court can overturn unconstitutional laws. The State government is modeled after the federal government and contains the same three branches; however, each state has their own constitution, which is often more detailed than the federal constitution. All powers not allotted to the federal government are reserved for the state governments. In the state government, the executive branch is...
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...purpose of this assignment is to explain the relationship among the branches of government and the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). As I went through the research, I was able to understand that the three branches of government, legislative, executive and judicial are associated with the UCC in many different ways. The three branches of government are related to each other because they work together towards a better future for our country everyday. They are constantly protecting the citizens of our country, and making decisions to improve the life-style of the population. Each branch of government has different power; those powers combined make the law, enforce it and verify that it is fair for the individuals. The power is limited, on both federal and state governmental actions. A part of their responsibility is associated with the taxing and spending power. In other words, we can say that the president, the congress and the Supreme Court require following the UCC to guarantee the equal protection of the citizen and the commitments made in the performance of their duties. To begin with, the three branches of government are: Legislative, Executive and Judicial. The Legislative branch is formed by the Congress, which is divided into The House of Representatives and the Senate. The President, vice president and the cabinet form the Executive branch. The Supreme Court and the other Federal Courts form the judicial branch. The branches of government could be associated with the UCC...
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...Principles of the Constitution The constitution consists of some primary principles. Briefly explain the following principles and their significance in shaping American government. • Self-Government: Self- Government is when the people of a country get to create their own rules and doesn’t have outside governments making decisions for them. This helped shape the American government by giving citizens of our country the responsibility to and the right to have a say in the rules that are being created. • Separation of Powers: Separation of Powers is when the government shares power between the three branches which are executive, legislative, and judicial. This helped shape the American government by making sure that powers weren’t being abused. Separation of Power is also a part of Checks and Balances. • Checks and Balances: Checks and Balances is when the U.S. Constitution divides the government into the three branches executive, legislative, and judicial to make a decision for our country. This helped shape American government because not only on branch could say yes or no on a decision, one may say no and two may say yes two might veto a decision and on may not but a decision has to be made by the three branches. Part II: Balance of Power In the space below, write an analysis of approximately 250 words on how the system of checks and balances in the federal government helps to limit the concentration of power. • Cite specific examples. Defend your rationale...
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...The government has seven basic principles too run the place but in my opinion the most important are Legislative Branch, Executive Branch, and Judicial Branch. The Legislative Branch is the congress were they can do many things for example they can carry out laws. Also the Executive branch is represented by the president where he can carry out laws and many other things too help the country. The last one is the judicial law It helps Interpret laws and other things. These are some of the government branches i will be talking about and will explain how seperating power between them all is good. One of the first branches was the Legislative branch which is the congress, every branch has a certain amount of power they can use and the congress has some important ones for example the most important is that they can pass on laws. Another ability is that the congress can declare war this is important because the president is commander of the armed forces so that means he’ll have to much power so this evens out the power between them. This means that since the president is the commander of the armed forces so too even out the power only the congress can start war against someone. The president can also make treaties with other countries so the congress has the power to impeach and remove presidents and other high officials just in case they don’t follow the rules. This explains that just in case the...
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...different form of government. While there were many weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation, many believed that by creating a Constitution it would solve many of the nations problems. Fortunately, the Constitution solved many problems, but created some big flaws that still remain today. One of the weaknesses in the Articles of the Confederation was that most of the governmental power was held by the states. It created a weak national government. The states were afraid that congress, due to its limited power, was unable to control the states. The government under the Articles of Confederation was a legislative branch and had no executive or judicial branches. Under the constitution, Mr. John Jay, of the Federalist Papers #3, believed that once a national government was established it would be wiser than the states. The solution was achieved by more power being held by the national government. Each state must be under the authority of the national government and each state has control of local government. These examples can be seen today in the local government and police department. Another weakness in the Articles of Confederation is it only had one branch of government. It was called the legislative branch. There were no other branches of government. In order for the legislative branch to take action on any government matter it required the approval of all of the states. In order to fix the problem in the constitution they added 2 more branches of government. These are called...
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...study references one state statute. Identify it and explain what it prohibits. Tex. Penal Code §42.09(a)(3) It prohibits the “desecration of a venerable object” (Case Study) 2. Which branch of government (executive, judicial, or legislative) created the state statute? The Legislative branch of the government created the state statute. 3. The passage above also discusses one court case. Who were the parties involved in the case? The parties involved in this case were the State of Texas and Gregory Johnson. 4. The case was heard by three lower courts before it reached the United States Supreme Court. List those three courts in order, beginning with the court that has the most authority and ending with the court that has the least amount of authority. United States Supreme Court, Texas Court of Appeals, Fifth District, Dallas County Criminal Court 5. Provide the citation for the United States Supreme Court’s decision in this case. Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989). 6. What effect did the United States Supreme Court’s decision have on the Texas statute? The United States Supreme Court struck down the statute, stating it violated the First Amendment of the Constitution. Legislation enacts statutes. Statutes are passed laws. Some statutes are “new law” and some “supersede or adopt common laws” (Yelin, Samborn, 2012). Codification occurs when the Legislative branch of the government “adopts a common law” (Yelin, Samborn, 2012). Statutory...
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...branches of government that fall in with the constitution, all have important roles in which contribute for a fair and equal democracy. In Hamilton’s perspective the judiciary as he stated, was the least favored branch in the constitution. Also, the judicial review of legislation also implies that the Judicial Branch can’t do much in terms of taking away rights from individuals. Though unfortunately, it has often been complicit in letting the Legislative Branch take away those rights. In reality it is the Legislative Branch that is obtaining those certain rights. As Hamilton explains in The Federalist, the judiciary does not hold such higher powers as the other branches do. Alexander Hamilton simply positioned for the other branches to remain and be different from the judiciary. The solution he proposed to be different and that would provide a separation of the branches would be that the incumbent of the appointment and confirmation of Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States would be granted a “lifetime position” where they could not be removed as long as they maintained “good behavior”. Hamilton also recognized that the...
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...separation of powers as well as checks and balances. How are the ideas of the Magna Carta evident in the founding documents of the US? The ideas of the Magna Carta are expressed that not one person should have total and complete power. Our founding fathers decided to limit the powers of the branches of the government by creating a system in which one branch has a sure-fire way of checking a different branch. For example, any bill cannot be a law without first passing through both houses of congress and then signed by the President. Also, the Supreme Court may rule laws unconstitutional and remove them for good. The legislative branch may also impeach President's and elected officials. The final way we have used the checks and balances system is that all nominations to a position such as US Cabinet must go through the Senate....
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