Worked Together to End Segregation The three branches of the American Government often to not cooperate enough with one another to make laws or amend the constitution. Often, the system of checks and balances keeps one branch from moving forward with the law-making process. However, on the long road to desegregation, all three branches of the government were involved to make segregation in public schools against the law. The Legislative branch of government can make bills, but the Executive branch may veto them. The Executive branch may veto the bills, but the Legislative branch may override the veto. All of this is true; however, the Supremacy Clause states that a Supreme Court decision is the final law of the country. The battle for desegregation is a perfect example of how all three branches of government work together in American Government. In the American Government, each branch of government upholds a specific task in the law making process. The Legislative branch makes the laws of the United States, the Executive branch enforces the laws of the country, and the Judicial branch interprets the laws and amendments of the constitution. When dealing with desegregation, the fourteenth amendment gave all …show more content…
On the contrary, in 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States of America reversed its ruling of the doctrine "separate but equal" after hearing the case of Brown vs. Board of Education. The Supreme Court's new decision was that segregation in public education was not equal and therefore conflicted with the fourteenth amendment of the constitution. Here there is an example of a change being made to a supreme court decision. Once again, the only way to change a Supreme Court decision is with another Supreme Court decision. This fact may have been the key reason why it took almost sixty years to change the national law of segregation in public