Principles And Articles Of The United States Constitution: Article Analysis

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Elizabeth Richard March 28th 2014 POS- 301 Mark Tawney Principles and Articles of the United States Constitution | Createthe Law | Execute theLaws | InterprettheLaw | Democracy(Governed by the People) | CitizensVote/ElectLeaders | Self-Government | | | | X | X | Separation of Powers | | | | | | Checks and Balances | X | X | X | | | | Three GovernmentBranches | Legislative(House and Senate) | Executive(President and VicePresident) | Judicial(Federal and Supreme Courts) | Self-Government | | | | | Separation of Powers | X | X | X | X | Checks andBalances | | | | | Analysis Separation of Powers ensures that no one branch of government exceeds in authority over any one of the other two branches. An unequal level of…show more content…
The legislative branch contains The House of Representatives and The Senate. The House of Representatives and The Senate are responsible for establishing new laws, changing current laws or illuminating current laws. The executive branch is home to President and the Vice President. The President is elected by the people and chooses the members of his cabinet. The judicial branch consists of the Supreme Courts and Federal Courts. Judges are selected or elected as members of these courts to enforce the law. In summary, the legislative branch makes the law, the executive branch carries out the law and the judicial branch enforces the law. These branches interact with each in such a way that each branch relies on the other two branches for their…show more content…
Our founding fathers fought for a separation of powers between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches to avoid conflict and rise of power in one or more branches. In that aspect I believe the government works in a constructive manner to ensure equality between the branches, however, in the matter of working in a constructive manner for the good of the people is less certain. This country is facing an economic crisis and there are members of both parties that would tell the general public they would like the war in Afghanistan and Iraq to come to an end when in reality an economic recovery is the last thing they want to happen in a foreign country. The Republican Party, for example, would have liked to see a higher unemployment rate towards the end of 2012 in hopes of decreasing the chances of the President’s re-election. Higher unemployment rates lead to a more devastating economic crisis resulting in the failure to re-elect a democratic President or more precisely, our current President. These “truths” are not openly admitted to the general population and one can argue that they do not serve to benefit the good of the people of this economic state but rather benefit the political party. One can argue that politicians are mainly focused on their personal success but aren’t all of us
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