Cutchins Government and Economics 9.17.15 The Three Branches of Government In 1787 leaders of the states came together to write the Constitution. A set of principles that says how the new nation would be governed. The leaders of the states wanted a just and strong national government. And they also wanted to protect the peoples rights and freedom and prevent the government from taking advantage of its power. They believed they could do this by having three seperate branches of government; the Legislative
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the United States there are three branches of government which includes: the executive‚ legislative and judicial. All three branches have a distinct and critical function in the role of the government. They were created in Articles 1 legislative‚ 2 executive and 3 judicial of the United States Constitution ( Trethan‚ 2012). The executive branch is headed by the President‚ and he makes laws official. It is the duty of the President to run the federal government; also the executive power is his responsibility
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A limited government is imperative to‚ not only the freedom‚ but the success of a country. The revolutionary war‚ as well as the civil war‚ was fought because one side thought the government needed to have more restrictions then it already did. Are government was designed with an intricate system of checks and balances that made us the country we are today. These checks and balances give us our freedom by limiting our government. How? Because our founding fathers knew that man is fallen‚ and
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We have 3 branches of government because we didn’t want monarchy. The U.S. Constitution stated that the U.S. should split the power. So we split it into 3 branches so 1 branch wouldn’t get all the power. The United States of America is a democracy (an indirect democracy or republic‚ to be specific). The citizens of the country can attend fair elections. The power of the government is in the hands of the people or in the hands of elected representatives. The Executive Branch is the highest branch
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States’ government there are three very important branches; the legislative branch‚ the judicial branch‚ and the executive branch. In order to keep each branch from having too much power they are all given their own role. However‚ because the government is basically just the rules of the game in America the executive branch is given the most power. As stated in the constitution‚ the executive branch basically enforces the laws of government therefore giving it the most power of all the branches. The
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everything is connected like how there are similarities between the brain and the government? We know there are three branches of government: the executive branch‚ the legislative branch‚ and the judicial branch. The frontal lobes‚ nerve cells‚ nervous system‚ neurotransmitters‚ thalamus‚ axons‚ and cerebellum are located in your brain and head. Relating their functions to the three branches. Despite there being multiple governments and multiple brains they are all similar when it comes to control‚ power
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want that type of tyranny in the United States. They new they had to create a system of laws to keep the power in order. To do this‚ they created three separate-but-equal branches of government‚ along with a system of checks and balances to make sure no one branch got more power than the other. The three branches of government are the executive branch‚ the legislative branch‚ and the judicial branch.
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forming the new system of government for America‚ the framers of the Constitution understood early on that if they were not careful‚ any one group could abuse the power bestowed upon them. In order to prevent this potential exploitation from occurring the framers were certain to build a systems of checks and balances. Within this system rests the three branches of government. They are the executive‚ the legislative and the judicial branches. Each of the three branches is responsible for its own
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In the American system of government many citizens know that there are three branches of the national government‚ being the Supreme Court‚ The President and Congress‚ respectively. The background and foundation of these said branches cannot be more clearly derived and begotten from federalism‚ the important division of powers. The important aspect of this system is‚ at a national level‚ federalism will ‘fall down the chain’ to affect the states and further affect the communities within that state
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Three Branches of Government In 1787 leaders of the states gathered to write the Constitution –a set of principles that told how the new nation would be governed. The federal convention convened in the states house (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on May 14‚ 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation. Through discussion and debate it became clear by Mid-June that‚ rather than amend the existing Articles‚ the convention would draft an entirely new frame of government. All through the summer
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