If Congress doesn’t agree with the impoundment of funds, the president is required to spend the money. The act also requires presidents to notify Congress of delays in spending. Impeachment: Presidents can be removed upon impeachment and conviction. The House votes to indict the president. The impeached president must be convicted by a 2/3 vote of the Senate (which sits as a court, hears the
They were saying that the Constitution was didn’t honor the liberty nor the self-government. Wood believes that the Federalists acted more creatively than any other generation in America history. He also believes that the Federalists of the 1790s feared the people, while the earlier Federalists didn’t and knew
If the government loses support of the lower house then it must resign. Royal Assent: Royal assent is the signing of a proposed law by the Crown’s representative before it becomes a law. Separation of powers: The principle of separation of powers refers to the fact that there are three separate types of powers in our parliamentary system. These are legislative power, executive power and judicial power. Judicial power is separate from legislative power and executive power.
With this system, the judicial branch, the Supreme Court, can check Congress by declaring laws unconstitutional. The executive branch, the president, can check Congress by vetoing bills they have passed in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The president checks the judicial branch by appointing Federal judges, but the Senate must agree with a majority vote for it to go through. Congress can check both the president and members of the Court with its power of impeachment. Officials could be impeached by Congress for treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Rachel Kay How accurate is it to say Frederick William IV was responsible for the failure of the Frankfurt Parliament? The Frankfurt Parliament was established to create freedom of press, German citizenship for all, fair taxation, equality of political rights and to create a unified Germany. However, countries like Austria greatly opposed it. Frederick William IV could be seen as responsible for the failure of the Frankfurt Parliament because he refused to accept any form of leadership and made it clear he distrusted the ‘gentlemen of Frankfurt’. However, many other factors played a role in the demise of the Parliament such as the fact that they were ill-organised, the lack of popular support and their inability to enforce decisions.
Confederation and Constitution period ( 1783-1789) Introduction After American Revolution the states were in the situation where they couldn’t pay off the war debts, or negotiate and regulate commerce with foreign nations. In fact the relationship between the states were shaken as they had to compete for trade opportunities which was taken advantage of by Britain- still the world’s strongest trading nation. State governments tended to be dominated by their legislatures and thus provided little effective check on violent and dominant factions. The need for a strong national government became obvious. Once the British system of government was rejected, the states, operating under the “Articles of Confederation,” saw
They knew the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation; as a governing body, it lacked legislative power that was necessary to support a functional democracy. The important factor in the Constitutional Convention of the seventeenth century was powerless America. The United States was incapable of competing in the global economic because of lack of power to enforce laws and decrees in the states. They understood that a national government would definitely limit the power of total democracy. Without a strong central government, democracy was impossible thus America was propelling towards the gallows of failure.
Both classes had disagreements with the Articles of Confederation. Federalists say that the articles were weak and ineffective because the state governments was too weak to apply laws and ordered for a national government instead. We Anti-federalists however believed that the Articles of Confederation was a good plan and that there should not be a government more powerful than the state governments. Believing that state governments should have more power compared to the national government was one of the big reasons why the anti-federalists supported the Articles of Confederation. How about the U.S constitution, what factors were held to point out?
Yes, the President has unilateral war powers in political reality (he does not have it according to the letter of the law). As Commander-In-Chief, the President can order troops into any incursion for any reason; this later can be reclassified as a Black Op and kept secret, presented to Congress as an Act of War, or labeled as 'Peacekeeping' or termed a 'Police Action'. The authority of this action can then be authorized via Executive Order or Signing Statement - and used to circumvent constitutional law, procedure, or the separation of powers. This is partially how George W. Bush has been getting around Congress. Since the troops have to go in first, all Congress can do is cut off the funding.
Unity or independence was very important to the colonists before the Revolutionary War because they didn’t have the rights we do today. Colonists couldn’t trade with the world, weren’t protected of their rights, imposed taxes, and a lot more. The king of the colonies had treated them with a lot of disrespect. He had not given them any freedom whatsoever, and had just made them follow his unjust rules and law. Although they knew the consequences or punishments for doing so, the colonists had found ways to smuggle.