What Are The Three Branches Of Government

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The Branches of Government and How They Relate to One Another

Introduction

This essay will examine the first critical thinking question found at the end of chapter one, in Robert Aberle’s text, The Administration of Justice, an Introduction to the Criminal Justice System in America. I will present a discussion highlighting the three individual branches of the Federal Government examining “the concepts of checks and balances, and how they are used in the United States” (Aberle, 2014). Aberle’s accretions will be presented and contrasted with my own words.

Legislative Branch
Aberle defines the legislative branch as “the branch of government (that) is responsible for writing and passing all laws” (2014). Simply put: the legislative branch …show more content…

I believe that our forefathers who created the three branches of government foresaw that the authority granted to each branch can easily be diminished by another branch, so they set up this system to prevent manipulation. Each branch has their own distinct operations and crossing another branches operations creates what is known as a “Constitutional Question”. For that reason, the President, who is the head of the executive branch, cannot make or pass a law because the function of making and passing laws is the authority granted to the legislative branch. Likewise, the U.S. Supreme Court cannot enforce a law because that is the task given to the executive branch. And finally, the Supreme Court cannot enforce laws nor make laws. However, the interaction between the three branches is an impressive system because neither branch can work without the other. A basic example of how the branches works together is as follows: the legislature makes the laws that the police enforces and the judicial branch tries the cases that the police initiate through arrest.

Conclusion
In conclusion, this paper has shed some light on the three distinct branches of the Federal Government which include: the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. I also used the three branches of government to examine the first critical

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