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Branching Out Our Nation
To ensure a separation of powers, the U.S. Federal Government is made up of three branches: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial, which makes sure that no branch becomes too powerful, or overwhelmed. To ensure the government is effective, and citizens’ rights are protected, each branch has its own powers, and responsibilities.
The Legislative Branch is addressed in Article I of the Constitution. In the Legislative Branch, their main duties, and responsibilities are to do oversight, casework, and make laws. The composition of the branch consists of a Bicameral Legislature, composed of the House of Representatives, and the Senate. There are 435 members of the House, based on population, where each state has at least one Representative. Each of these Representatives serves two year terms, and is directly elected by the people. In the Senate, however, each state has two regardless of size. They have six year staggered terms, with one third of the Senators running for re-election every two years. The 17th Amendment allowed for the Senate to be elected by the people in 1915. Each of these Representatives and Senators are there to represent the political ideologies of their constituents, which is why different states have different laws. Another important member of the Legislative Branch is the Speaker of the House. In the House of Representatives, a Speaker of the House is chosen by the members. The Speaker is from the majority party, and gets to run the action on the floor of the House. In the Senate, the Vice President serves as the presiding officer. He only votes in the case of a tie, and does not spend the majority of his time on the Senate floor. When the Vice President is not around, the Senate has sel...

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...section covering senatorial courtesy. A president can leave a decades-long legacy in the form of the judges he had appointed to the bench during his/her terms in office according to their political party. A Republican president is most likely to appoint conservative judges who they expect to make conservative decisions. On the other hand, Democratic presidents tend to appoint liberal judges who are expected to make liberal decisions. All of these decisions are extremely important, as many of the rights we rely upon are based upon such decisions. Such rights were awarded to us on the basis of a decision made by 9 unelected, life-term, Supreme Court justices.
The wellbeing and order of our country are provided by these three branches of government. Each branch serves its own purpose, and each helping our nation, and will continue to help our nation grow and succeed.