Legislative Branch The Legislative Branch is one out of the three branches of the government. All of the Legislative Branches rights and powers are defined in the U.S Constitution. However the Legislative Branch is the most powerful branch. The Legislative Branch is the most powerful branch because they make laws‚ declare war‚ and override presidential veto‚ and many more. One of the Legislative branches power is to declare war. The founders of US Constitution didn’t want to give the president
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The Executive Branch I.The President of the United States: George W. Bush i.Requirements to Hold Office: You must be at least thirty-five years old‚ a natural born citizen of the United States‚ and a resident of the US for no less than fourteen years. ii.Duties and Powers: The President must execute laws‚ commission all officers of the United States‚ and adjourn or convene both houses. It is also a duty of the President to pass and regulate laws. With the consent of the Senate he may make treaties
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The American Legislative branch‚ or Congress‚ is one of the most‚ if not the most‚ key provisions established in the Constitution of the United States. The organization‚ powers‚ and limitations of the Congress can be found throughout the first Article of the United States Constitution. Congress is made up of two bodies‚ the House of Representatives‚ composed of 435 members‚ and the Senate‚ composed of 100 members. This bicameral legislature is established under Article 1‚ Section 1 of the Constitution
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Name ____________________________________ Period ____________ Federal Constitution Study Guide Article I Legislative Branch 1. The job of the legislative branch is to ____Make laws____ 2. The legislative branch is divided into two parts or two houses which are House of Representatives_‚ ___Senate________ House of Representatives 3. The House of Representatives has ____435____ members 4. There are three qualifications from becoming a member of the House of Representatives 1. Must be ___25___
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three separate branches of government: legislative‚ executive‚ and judiciary; with the most powerful branch‚ the legislative branch‚ being divided further into two separate houses‚ the House of Representatives‚ with representation based on population‚ and the Senate‚ with an equal number of representatives from each state. Each branch of government is independent with its own sets of duties‚ and‚ as mentioned before‚ can check the power of the other two branches. The judiciary branch is kept separate
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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
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institutions sharing power” is too bulky and unwieldy to work in the modern context‚ and a more efficient government is needed. Those people have to know that a system that has been working right for so long time will keep working right not matter what modern context comes to us. Therefore‚ it means that we have a very efficient government. Critics have to understand which are our institutions of government and why they are separated by the Constitution‚ how these institutions share power‚ and why the Founders
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separates the powers into branches in order to keep each branch’s power in check. The Constitution is protected from tyranny by allowing government officials to be elected by the people of the United States. The Constitution divides the powers of our government into many different departments that keep one another in check. The United States government has three main branches and those are The Legislative Branch‚ The Executive Branch‚ and The Judicial Branch. The Legislative Branch includes the House
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The Executive Branch The executive branch is headed by the President‚ who is elected by a direct vote of the people. The term of office of the President‚ as well as the Vice-President‚ is six (6) years. As head of the Executive Department‚ the President is the Chief Executive. He represents the government as a whole and sees to it that all laws are enforced by the officials and employees of his department. He has control over the executive department‚ bureaus and offices. This means that he has
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The powers of the Executive Branch‚ or otherwise the President‚ are spelled out in Article II of the Constitution; however Jeffery Tulis argues the point that there are two constitutional presidencies. The first one is the constitutional presidency that the Founding Fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution and it has changed little to none. The second is the informal version of the constitutional presidency that Woodrow Wilson devised and that the majority of Presidents since have followed
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