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The united states has a democratic government, what means that the citizens have (indirect) say in the government. Since the people here indirect can say what happens in the government, they kinda powerful. Despite that the government has a lot more power, lucky the citizens are protected to that by the constitution. the first constitution of the united states is the Articles of Confederation. The constitution exists out of amendments, the first ten amendments are called the bill of rights. The amendments
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The national government, the state government and the local government. Citizens have to deal with these three governments. They have powers and responsibilities in common, but also different powers. The constitution is there to limited the power of the government(s). If there was no constitution the government could do anything, but the powers are limited. The constitution can limit the power of the government because it says what the rights of the people are. Then the national government, the state government and, the local government all have different powers. Before that, the national government is also separate in the legislative, the judicial and the executive branch. It’s called separation of power. Now a couple examples of powers the governments got.”The national government can coin money, Declare war and conduct foreign relations. The state government regulates alcoholic beverages and establish public schools. The power is not only separated between these two, they also share power. Two examples of concurrent power between the national and state government are: borrow money and establish courts”.(Unit 2: structure of government, powers of congress 1). The local government is responsible for fire and police departments and maintaining the sidewalks. These are a couple examples. As you can see how bigger the area of the government is how greater the powers is they …show more content…
The judicial branch has the power to interpret the laws, determine their meaning and settle disputes.”(Notes of united 1: What is an Oligarchy, an autocracy, and a democracy). In order to prevent that one branch becomes too powerful there is checks and balances. Each branch checks the other two branches. The national government has big responsibilities. It has to take care of the national health. A government doesn’t want an unhealthy society. They also have to take care of foreign trades and political conventions with other countries. And then they are responsible for all the tax money. Where does all the money go to, are they going to use it for education or infrastructure? Then the state and local government. The United States constitution defines the structure of the national government. Each state also got it’s own constitution. The state constitutions are much longer and detailed, because they more focused on limiting the rights of the people who are in their state. Every state got a different constitution. So for example, this is what a law is in Connecticut “the Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state.” (Conn. Const. art. I, § 15) (1818) But this is not the case in Minnesota “No "right to keep and bear arms" provision.”(Guarantees of the Right to Arms In State Constitutions, 2015). this is an example of just one of the many different laws all the states
Each one came from eleven different colonies to change the Articles of Confederation because it wasn't working out. The states had too much power and the national government have little to none of the power. There was no army or taxes. They needed to change it so the nation could stay together and not fall apart. So they made the Constitution. The constitution protected America by, Federalism, Separation of Powers and checks and balances.Federalism helps protect America from tyranny. It lets the states and the government both have power. (Doc A). There is only certain things the state can do as well as there is certain things only the national government
An example of this would be that the federal government has control over the military, foreign policy, our postal system and the monetary policies. The state government has the responsibility for the police/law enforcement, road building and the schools.
The Constitution of the United States set up an intricate government with a very brief document. The Constitution is actually shorter than this essay, but was still able to set up all of the procedures that make our government act so slowly today. One process that takes an especially long time is passing a bill to make a law. Every governmental action has to be put into writing and then passed by the Congress and the Supreme Court. Too many government agencies have to examine every bill. The United States government only starts at the national level with the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches. Everything breaks down into more areas such as the House of Representatives and the Senate. The Federal government's semi-equal is the state government. State government breaks down into several subsidiaries as well. The court system is an excellent example of how a government system breaks down from a national to a community level. For instance, the high court in America is the U.S. Supreme Court. The step down from ther...
The Judiciary Branch offers checks and balances to the other branches of government. To both the Legislative and Executive branches, the Judicial Branch holds the power of judicial review. The Judicial branch can also declare existing laws as unconstitutional.
In brief, the United States government consists of three branches of government. These branches- the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative are outlined in the Constitution. Without these, the country would not run smoothly, nor live up to the full potential of the great United States of America.
State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The U.S government works under princible called federalisim. Citizens regualte by two separate governments, federal and state. The federal government has limited power over all fifty states. State has power over their state, and no state can not make laws that conflict with federal laws. Federalisim is a system that allows two or more governments to share control over the same geographic region. The power is divided. The difference between federal and state governments power, the powers granted to the U.S. government are to collect taxes, pay debts, provide for the common defense and welfare of the U.S. The Federal Government can even boworrow money, regualte commerce within forgien nations and states. The power of the federal government
Before the adoption of the United States Constitution, the U.S. was governed by the Articles of Confederation. These articles stated that almost every function of the government was chartered by the legislature known as Congress. There was no distinction between legislative or executive powers. This was a major shortcoming in how the United States was governed as many leaders became dissatisfied with how the government was structured by the Articles of Confederation. They felt that the government was too weak to effectively deal with the upcoming challenges. In 1787, an agreement was made by delegates at the Constitutional Convention that a national judiciary needed to be established. This agreement became known as The Constitution of the United States, which explicitly granted certain powers to each of the three branches of the federal government, while reserving other powers exclusively to the states or to the people as individuals. It is, in its own words, “the supreme Law of the Land” (Shmoop Editorial Team).
The Founding Fathers limit the power of government in the Constitution utilizing many different tactics, many more than even the aforementioned. Their main intent was to make the nation less democratic and to keep the government small. The Constitution has accomplished the Founding Fathers' goal until now, and will hopefully continue doing so in the future.
Tushnet, Mark. "Interpreting the Right to Bear Arms---Gun Regulation and Constitutional Law." The New England Journal of Medicine. 3 Apr. 2008. Web. 15 Oct. 2011.
The reason for much of this power is the principle of judicial review of the actions of the executive and legislative branches of government at both state and federal level against a written constitution and the power therefore to 'interpret' the constitution. The power of judicial review over the states is laid down in the supremacy clause of article III and the power of judicial review over the other two branches of the federal government is implied in the constitution and by several but by no means all of the founding fathers: "A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or, in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of thei... ... middle of paper ... ...
The right to bear arms protects “The Individual” rights from owing a firearm. The modern federal government easily accepted the 2nd Amendment with a widespread agreement that power of the federal government to infringe the Amendment that gives people the right to bear arms. If the government should not have the power to abbreviate from the free right to exercise of religion, than the government should not have the power to abridge the 2nd Amendment right (Lund & Winkler, n.d.). Over the past century, many restriction were supported to prevent criminal from possessing firearms as the law also limits the law-abiding people who respect the law also known as “Honest
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But the Executive branch has it all, power, commands, and says to do stuff! From major responsibilities that have to do with other courtiers to processing a law. To Presidency which allows him to do as wished and the Executive there to support him. Executive has the power because everything is mainly about the President. The rest are just based on courts and cases but the Executive has more control in everything they do. Therefore I believe the Executive has more power and is more influential than the rest of the government
Then there is the state government which are responsible for governing affairs within their borders, and carrying out federal laws and programs at the state level. They are governed by their own constitutions and retain any rights that the U.S. Constitution does not exclusively grant to the federal government. The state government is limited as they cannot form alliances with other states and must honor and respect the laws and institutions of the other states. And finally there is the federal government which is the central and highest level of government in the U.S. It is divided into three branches and each branch has its own rights and power to check and balance the powers of each branch. The federal government has the power to regulate taxes, establish federal welfare programs and make laws in the interest of the nation as a whole. There are also limitations set to the federal government’s authority, as they cannot ask local law enforcements agencies to do minor administrative jobs. Although all levels of government have their own responsibilities there are limits to interfering with other governments