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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not enough justice. The founding fathers of our constitution placed "Justice" at the highest pedestal and our preamble to the constitution placed justice higher that the other features like liberty‚ equality and fraternity. People use to go to the judiciary in quest of justice. The little drops of humanness‚ which make humanity a cherished desire of mankind‚ had dried up when the perpetrators of the crime had burnt alive helpless women and innocent children.
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is doctrine of the UK constitution first termed by Montesquieu‚ a French political philosopher‚ in his 1748 book De l ’esprit des lois (The Spirit of the Laws) he argues that there are three bodies of government – the executive‚ legislature and judiciary – which each have a discrete area of power with clear functions that no other body can imitate: this is true ‘separation of powers’. The purpose of which is to limit state power so that no element has an abuse of power hence protecting civil liberties
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branches. However‚ before 1803‚ the judicial branch was lacking such said power over the legislative and executive branches. It was not until the case of Marbury v. Madison that Chief Justice Marshall justified the power of judicial review to the judiciary branch‚ finally obtaining equal leverage among the legislative and executive branches. With the implementation of judicial review‚ the U.S. Supreme Court has jurisdiction and authority to strike down law‚ overturn executive acts‚ and legally bind
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and the role of the Court of Appeal. In addition‚ this separation of power avoids the judiciary from holding absolute power‚ thus discouraging corruption and bias from the judiciary through politics and
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socio-cultural issues of race‚ gender age and class upon Sanjay Ali who is a client outlined in an Open University (2017) case study. It will go on to consider the implications each socio-cultural issue has on this client’s treatment within the judiciary and mental health services‚ it will also discuss the implications and impact of the intersectionality of the various identities of the client. The essay will conclude with a critical discussion and summary of the main points. Firstly to look at the
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The Governor The Attorney General of India 4. Judiciary The Supreme Court High Courts 5. Conclusion 6. Bibliography INTRODUCTION The separation of powers is a constitutional principle that deals with the mutual relations among the three organs of the government‚ namely‚ legislature‚ executive and judiciary. The legislative organ of the state makes laws‚ the executive enforces them and the judiciary applies them to the specific cases arising out of
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had. The doctrine of the separation of powers is an idea that can be seen in writings as far back as the time of Aristotle. This concept states that any constitution relies on the ‘three pillars of state’ which are the executive‚ legislative and judiciary. Montesquieu formulated this concept in the eighteenth century and in ‘L’Esprit des Lois’ wrote; “All would be lost if the same man or the same body of principle of men‚ either of nobles‚ or of the people‚ exercised these three powers: that of making
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of the state. History bounds in scintillating examples of judicial activism‚ when the judiciary came face to face with legislative arbitrariness or executive abuses or interference in the due course of legal proceedings. Before we dwell on the cause and features of judicial activism‚ let us first understand what it is. A modern democratic state is built on the principle of trichotomy of powers‚ i.e. the judiciary‚ executive and legislative have to perform their won designed functions. However‚ it
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Constitution in relation to the constitution itself and in relation to the political branches of government. This is essentially to locate where lays supremacy between the branches and the judiciary particularly the Supreme Court with its final appellate jurisdiction. Judicial review and supremacy of the judiciary had been of recurring academic discuss in some jurisdictions with written Constitutions‚ particularly the United States from where Nigeria largely borrowed its presidential constitutionalism
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