Legislative And Executive Branches Of Government

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In this essay, I will combine information from both the textbook, in class discussion, and my syllabus in order to better understand and explain issues, ideas, concepts and models related to American government and politics. I will pay particular attention to the following: the functions of the Legislative and Executive branches of the government and how they are linked together through intergovernmental relationships; and bureaucracy in the form of an organization.
I will provide a means of understanding the work undertaken during this section of the course. In my conclusion, I will demonstrate that I understand how these ideas, issues, concepts and models – fully explained in the body of my essay-fit together. My essay’s length …show more content…

These chambers are known as the House of Representatives and the Senate. Within the House of Representatives, each member is given a two-year term in office. These members are directly elected by the people to ensure that they are qualified. On the other hand, members of the Senate were to be appointed by the state legislature for six years. However, this changed in 1913 due to the Seventeenth Amendment, which instituted the direct election of senators. These terms were made in this specific way so that the appointments of one-third of the senators would terminate every two years. Although the House of Representatives and the Senate make up the legislative branch, each has different responsibilities. The Senate is given the power to ratify treaties and approve the presidential appointments. However, the House of Representatives was created to originate revenue bills. The house of Representatives is intended to be responsible to the people to promote popular consent for the new Constitution. The house is also accountable when it comes to creating a stronger and more powerful government. Overall, the structure of the legislative branch is to contribute to governmental power, to limit popular political currents that may be a radical threat, and to lead the people towards a new government. Since the Articles of Confederation did not supply an executive branch, the …show more content…

Although these models are almost identical, there are two main differences. The first difference is that control is being questioned. How much control do bureaucrats really have and is it possible that the bureaucratic control is not as uniformed as we think it is? Is it an illusion? The other difference is that the non-rational actor model deals with negotiated rule-making. To understand what negotiated rule-making is, we have to understand what a rule is. According to the APA, “rule means the whole or part of an agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy.” Rules can help bureaucrats do things such as create a plan to implement legislation or organize defined activity in society. Rules can also help amend current practices or repeal existing regulations. Rulemaking is simply a process used by bureaucratic departments and agencies leading to the creations of rules that provide an understanding of existing legislation. However, negotiated rule-making is different and is not used in the rational actor model. Negotiated rule making is defined as a process by which representatives of an agency and of the interest affected by the subject of rulemaking seek to reach consensus on the terms of a proposed rule and on the process by which

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