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Recommended: Checks and balances and separation of power

The United States Constitution is a very powerful and unique living document that governs the way the American government plans and executes foreign and domestic affairs .This paper will be elaborating on how the Constitution establishes checks and balances that enable three branches to work with one another through the examination of the 2003 Iraq invasion that was executed based on the Carter Doctrine.
In order for democracy in the United States to be properly controlled it requires a lot of checks and balances hence the three branches in our government system. The Constitution establishes the three branches, executive, legislative, and judicial. The executive branch is comprised of the President and his or her cabinet members. The President is also the Commander and Chief of the United States, which enables the power to run all military and Department of Defense (DoD) assets. Then there is the legislative branch where Congress resides with the main role of creating, funding, and passing legislations to be finalized by the President. The third branch is the judicial branch with their ability to see if the legislative bills being vetted through Congress are constitutional. This branch also has the authority and power over courthouse rulings and ensuring that they too fall in the lines of the Constitution. Basically, the judicial branch is the ones that interoperate the Constitution. All three of these branches played a vital role in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, which was an act of war that could not have been executed without the support of the three branches.
Under the Constitution Article II section 2, it explains the President’s role in regards to the military of the United States and his ability to employ them (United States S...

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...e 2003 Iraq invasion, the judicial branch reviewed the events that took place before and after in order to review the Constitutional legitimacy of the events.

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