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Check And Balance System: Legislative, Executive, And Judicial Branch

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Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branch work together. This is known as Check and Balance system. This system was created to make sure no one branch becomes too powerful. The first branch is the Legislative Branch. The Legislative Branch job is to write laws. In the Legislative Branch there are two houses. House of Representative and Senate. Senate is the upper house and House of Representative is the lower house. The Senate has the power is to decide if the president is guilty or not breaking a law. There are one hundred senators all together but only two to each state. House of Representative has the power to start the process of impeachment if two third of the representatives agree. House of Representative depends on population, which makes big states happy while the Senate does not depend on population which makes small states happy. The second Branch is Executive. Executive Branch job is to enforce laws. The Executive Branch consists of the president, vice president, and cabinet. The president has many powers like being Commander- In- Chief of the army, make treaties with other countries, reject laws, and suggests the judges for supreme court. In order to be the president of the United States then you have to be thirty-five years old, born in …show more content…

The Judicial Branch is made of three different courts. Local Court, Appeal Court, and Supreme court are the three courts that make up the Judicial Branch. The job of the Judicial Branch is to explain the laws. But their power is to declare laws that are constitutional or unconstitutional. The process of going to court is, case goes to Local court. If you're not happy with the decision that is made then you go to the Appeal court. If you still aren't happy with the decision that was made then you go to the Supreme court. After that you are going to have to deal with the decision that is made because the Supreme court is the highest court and there is no more courts to go

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