Essay On How Was The Constitution Used To Establish Our Government
We the People Speech: Unit 4
By Anushka Edlabadkar, Sophia Azab, Anvita Suresh, John Lee, Sathvi Seshan, and Tye Williams
How was the Constitution used to establish our government? How was the Constitution used to establish our government? Articles 1, 2, and 3 setup 3 branches, the Judicial Branch is 1 of those branches. Its job is to interpret laws and the constitution, there are many powers the Judicial Branch has given to them by Act 3 of the Constitution. One of the most if not the most important power is Judicial Review, this gives the Judicial Branch the power to rule whether a law passed by Congress and signed by the President is unconstitutional. How did the Supreme Court acquire the power of judicial review? The power of Judicial Review wasn’t established as a specific provision in the words of the Constitution but during the Supreme Court case of Marbury vs Madison (1803) as a check within the system of checks and balances created mainly by James Madison. This system gave all branches of government powers to ensure that one branch of government could not become too powerful. This check allows the Judicial Branch to declare a law made by the Executive and …show more content…
Why or why not? Our group believes that the U.S. Supreme Court should have the power to declare an act of congress unconstitutional. The reasoning is judicial review is one of the most important checks on the leg of the Executive Branch within the system of checks and balances. If the Supreme Court could not use judicial review over acts of congress the judicial branch would have little power to stop congress from performing a unconstitutional act such as overruling the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment which gave all citizens the right to protection under the law, or ignoring the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which gave all people the rights equal to those of all
By Anushka Edlabadkar, Sophia Azab, Anvita Suresh, John Lee, Sathvi Seshan, and Tye Williams
How was the Constitution used to establish our government? How was the Constitution used to establish our government? Articles 1, 2, and 3 setup 3 branches, the Judicial Branch is 1 of those branches. Its job is to interpret laws and the constitution, there are many powers the Judicial Branch has given to them by Act 3 of the Constitution. One of the most if not the most important power is Judicial Review, this gives the Judicial Branch the power to rule whether a law passed by Congress and signed by the President is unconstitutional. How did the Supreme Court acquire the power of judicial review? The power of Judicial Review wasn’t established as a specific provision in the words of the Constitution but during the Supreme Court case of Marbury vs Madison (1803) as a check within the system of checks and balances created mainly by James Madison. This system gave all branches of government powers to ensure that one branch of government could not become too powerful. This check allows the Judicial Branch to declare a law made by the Executive and …show more content…
Why or why not? Our group believes that the U.S. Supreme Court should have the power to declare an act of congress unconstitutional. The reasoning is judicial review is one of the most important checks on the leg of the Executive Branch within the system of checks and balances. If the Supreme Court could not use judicial review over acts of congress the judicial branch would have little power to stop congress from performing a unconstitutional act such as overruling the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment which gave all citizens the right to protection under the law, or ignoring the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which gave all people the rights equal to those of all