The Three Branches Of Government

Governmental policies of the colonies that helped shape our Constitutional Republic today have determined what America has become. So many things have shaped America in one way or another. But along the way they have been revised and changed as America has grown. Today the methods that were used when America was first born that are still used today are system of checks and balances, the three branches of government, and the process of which bills are processed. All of these things have affected us in many ways and each one works together in order to form the United States government today. Checks and balances is a very important system. Checks and balances prevents the three branches Legislative, Executive, and Judicial from having too much

The three branches of government are Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branch. The Legislative branch is made up of two houses the Senate and House of representatives. The Senates job is to approve nominations by the Supreme Court, federal courts, and the President to the cabinet. Senate is made up of 100 senators two from each state. Senators are elected by their state and serve a six year terms. The House of Representatives job is to represent the states that they are from. Total there are 435 representatives. Overall the main of the legislative branch is to job is to decide if the bill is worth putting through congress and passing. The first pillar, legislative branch, has less duties but it is still very

The Legislative branch is first given a bill. A bill is also known as a law. This process is very tedious because it determines if the bill will be put through congress and voted on. Once this is down and it voted on only by the Legislature and the vote passes the law it is passed on to the Executive branch. Once the executive branch looks at the bill and passes it the bill will then be passed to the president and to the supreme court also known as the Judicial Branch. This step is very important and all government is involved in it. The Supreme Court looks over it and decides whether it is constitutional. When a new law is drawn up it has to be backed up by the first the laws. Because every law cannot prevent another law from doing what it was written to do. The president looks over the law and if he agrees he can sign it and then it becomes a law or if he does not agree with the law he can veto it and send it back to