Essay On The Executive Branch

Lord Action once quoted, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” This is true and the founding fathers of the Constitution feared tyranny for the new nation. The framers of the Constitution wanted to form a new government in which one person does not possess all the power. With this concept in mind, they wrote the Constitution and the birth of the three branches of government was born. The three branches of government consist of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branch. The Legislative Branch makes the law, the Executive enforces the law and the Judicial Branch interprets the law. Recently, there have been questioning on the government on whether the practice of the Executive branch was correct. In the case of King v. Burwell, the Supreme Court was asked to evaluate whether the executive branch’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act was consistent with the language of the law written by Congress.
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The Obama’s health care law allows, “the federal government to provide nationwide tax subsidies to help poor and middle-class people buy health insurance, a sweeping vindication that endorsed the larger purpose of Mr. Obama’s signature legislative achievement.” This law opened the window to many different perspectives. Chief Justice John G Roberts Jr., wrote for the six-justice majority saying, “Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them.” Conversely, The House Speaker John A. Boehner quoted, “The problem with Obama Care is still fundamentally the same: The law is broken. It’s raising costs for American families, it’s raising costs for small businesses and it’s just fundamentally broken. And we’re going to continue our efforts to do everything we can to put the American people back in charge of their health care and not the federal government.” This shows different interpretations of the passage of the Obama Health Care