The congress has the sole authority to achieve legislation that has a budget for the federal government and could declare war depending on the United States decision. While the Senate has to maintain their powers to approve the treaties by the two-third majority votes and confirm presidential appointments by a majority vote (Bowser, p.14). The amendment must then be ratified by three-fourths of the states, either by state legislature or by a convention (Bowser, p.14). Also, the head of the executive branch is the president of the United States which has the power to veto, or reject a proposal …show more content…
This branch will write, debate, and pass laws which is why this is called the legislative branch. The powers of the Congress which are involved with the House and State are located in Article 1 of the Constitution and Congress has the rights to give powers to the legislative branch, state constitutions which leads to restrict legislative powers, but the U.S. Constitution gives a long list of power to borrow and selling their power to establish post offices, and define and punish (Bowser, p.16). For instance, Bowser explains that on the other hand, state constitutions restrict legislature's ability to create new taxes, increase existing taxes, authorize gambling or regulate the business of local governments without voter approval and the reason why is that these branches are made for equal power and to be fair with the citizen of the United States (Bowser,