Each branch has its own powers in the government, but the system of checks and balances keeps each branch from gaining too much power and overstepping its bounds. The checks and balances were originally put in place to protect the newly formed democracy from turning into another monarchy. Though stalemates do occur, for the most part, the three branches work together to promote the will of the people. Stalemates are bound to happen with differing opinions. When the executive branch is made of a majority of one party and the legislative branch is made up of a majority of a different party.
The constitution does not grant congress oversight responsibility but it does give congress the powers to make laws so oversight of congress has become an implied power. It is congresses' role to make law and see how it is working after it has passed through the houses and therefore they have given themselves a number of significant powers in order to carry this out. Subpoena documents, the illegality of lying to congress, and powers of impeachment are all examples of this. However the effectiveness of oversight is often called into question with some commentators. Most of congresses oversight comes from congressional committees as unlike in Britain congress cannot hold question time as the executive is not present in congress so it is only in committees that members of congress can directly question the executive.
Here they made great economic contributes in their new homes. Surely there were more events that made King Louis XIV of France the most dominate of them all. Not only did all of Europe believe in his power but he did as well. His reign of seventy-two years and 110 days was well spent in the lab of luxury, fighting wars and enjoying the arts and literature of France and defining himself absolute monarch of
2091) Though, there could be some delegation within that matter to argue that the President does not have the full powers of war because they are not “implicitly delegated” by the Congress to the President. In response to this: this is where the AUMF gives the President the right to use the powers of war implied to him by Congress, through which he is allowed to do within the law of war. Behind this allegation of the Presidentʼs war powers based on Congress, the Judiciary and Political branches support this theory that in need of protecting the country from foreign lands, the President has the right to act with military force without consulting Congress at force, as long as it is within the laws of war. Bradley and Goldsmith go on to say “...in the absence of express congressional restriction, the only limitations on presidential power during wartime were the laws of war.” (Bradley & Goldsmith, pg. 2092) In the court case of Brown v. United States, Brown argued that the laws of war were broken when the President tried to take over some land that was under the ownership of the enemy forces after the War of 1812.
The presidency comes with vast arrays of roles and responsibilities: approving/vetoing every bill passed, making sure laws made by congress are carried out, and simply presiding over meetings of the association. But the presidents many responsibilities are constrained due to the Separation of powers, the Constitution, and Federalism. Without these constraints, the President would have all the power he wanted, essentially having a monarchy not a democracy. For instance, separation of powers creates three separate branches of government, each with their own special powers. The Constitution creates reliability, making the president co-operate with the other branches of government.
The effect was to ignore a law he is bound to enforce and simple not enforce it. Kings and monarchs engage in this behavior. They rule by edict. The president is not acting like the president; he is acting like a king. If he can simply ignore laws he doesn’t want to enforce for whatever reason, what keeps him from simply doing what he wants and ignoring the congress of the United States?
By creating a government divided into the presidential, legislative, and judicial branches meant that no one’s power could come into absolute power. There is however a downside to having three branches of government. If there is a democratic president and one of the branches is a republican run branch they may not agree on some of the same ideas. When we have different branches vetoing bills and not making them laws this in turn affects the citizens who may need the change. Checks and Balances The system of checks and balances is part of our constitution.
The long standing debate on whether amending the constitution to allow Naturalized citizens to run for presidency has formed arguments for and against the issue; all arguments stand with valid points. But as a democracy as the United States is, the government must consider the equal treatment of all its citizens including those naturalized. Loyalty to this country does not fall in place according to the country a person was born but by the values they were raised in. Not everyone has a realistic prospective of running for president whatever their background may be; but excluding certain citizens from consideration merely based on nativity is unjust and self-destructive. Kennedy states in his article “It makes second-class citizens of naturalized
In other countries like Libya the right to vote is granted to no one because they are either under a dictatorship or the entire country is in mass chaos. To prevent a president from becoming a dictator congress has the power to impeach the president and any other member of the federal government if there is a good reason. This power is granted to Congress by Article II of the
It also limited the amount of years to two for a person who assumed the position when another person was elected but could not fulfill. The cause of this amendment was Roosevelt’s presidency in which he ran and won a third term in 1940 (Patterson 414). The reason for implementing this amendment was probable the government feeling the threat that if there is not a set limit than the presidency could somehow turn into a monarch type position (Patterson 414). Another key part of presidential selection is the Electoral College. The Electoral College is the main part of the government that elects the president.