The Importance Of Checks And Balances

The Constitution urged for a division of power. First between the state government and the Federal government and also between its three branches: the legislative, the executive and the judicial branches. A system of checks and balances ensures that one branch does not exert ultimate power but that it is observed and corrected by the powers of the other two branches.The Federalists divided power is in three different branches, the executive, judicial, and the legislative branch. The legislative branch tends to be the most powerful; therefore, this branch was divided into two sub-branches. Not only does these powers have to be balanced, but also the president cannot have too much. Checks and Balances are made so that if the president starts to act like a king or a dictator he can be impeached. The goal of the checks and balances were achieved, since the branches in the government are now equal.

Some examples of checks and balances in the Constitution occur in situations; such as when Congress has the authority to provide justice to the federal courts. The president has a discussion with federal judges about the information gathered from the Senate and their recommendation. Therefore, the three branches of government all have an opportunity to provide their viewpoint on how justice should be served in each federal court case. Checks and balances occur when the executive branch is in charge of foreign affairs, but treaties that deal with foreign governments need to be discussed with the Senate. Thus, the executive branch and the legislative branch have to communicate about decisions that relate to foreign treaties and come to an agreement.

The Constitution separates the power of government into three branches: the legislative power is vested in the Congress, the executive power rests with the President and his bureaucracy and the judicial power is granted to the Supreme Court and other federal courts. Whereas each branch of government has separate and particular powers as listed in the Constitution, each branch is also given the power, duty and ability to control and balance the other(s) in a system of checks and balances.

Checks and Balances, put simply, is the process by which the federal government maintains equal power throughout the three branches (Legislative, Judicial, Executive.) The branches can keep themselves in check in several ways, such as: presidential veto, impeachment, overridden vetoes, judicial review of local, state, and federal laws and regulations. Checks and Balances just keeps any branch from maintaining too much power within the federal government.

The United States constitution has a system specifically designed to prevent one of the three branches of government from gaining too much power. This system is called Checks and Balances. Throughout the course of history, this system has been put into use many times. Each branch is checked by the other two in many ways, some more than others. The balancing and checking of the federal government is important so that one branch does not become superior to the others.

In conclusion, each branch has equal, but different powers that weigh each other out. Checks and Balances help see through that none of the three branches of government get abused and or have too much power. They each have an important role that they have to play in order to keep our

The United States Founding Fathers built this country, the United States, around three branches of federal government: Legislative Branch, Executive Branch, and Judicial Branch. All three of these branches contain equally amount of power. Also these branches are granted the power to keep the other branches from gaining too much power. The Executive Branch has the power to veto a bill, while the Legislative Branch has the power override the veto. But some will say that the checks and balances that the Judicial Branch has are most important checks and balances of all three branches.

Have you ever wondered how our government got to be as organized as it is now? Well, it was not always that way; we used to not have 3 branches of government like we do today. They decided that each branch will have certain powers to make our country run smoothly; and this process is called checks and balances. Without the 3 branches powers being balanced, our life as citizens would be completely out of whack and uncontrolled. It is very important to know which branch has what power, and how each one functions and works to make our government successful because with the 3 branches of government being balanced, life would be much more under control than it would be if the branches power was not balanced.

Separation of powers is a principle of our government in which the three branches of government are divided and all hold equal power. Our Founding Framers who were the Framers of the constitution wanted to create a stronger national government than that of what we previously had when the country was under the Articles of Confederation. They also wanted the government to be more effective and already knew that the people wouldn’t want a national government with too much power like that of an autocracy. Using these standards the Framers of the Constitution meticulously crafted this principle of separation of powers which included three branches of government, each with different powers divided up among them, that of which is included in our Constitution.

Checks and balances does not separate the powers, rather it expands off of it. Checks and balances gives each entity of government a different advantage over the other.

Checks and balances is a significant creation because it let the legislative branch prevent the President from taking all the power. The legislative branch makes and proposes laws, and even though the president can still veto the bill, the legislative branch can still make the bill a law with a two-thirds majority vote. Checks and balances make sure the president can’t just deny everything because the bill doesn’t fit their needs. The separation of powers is also a very beneficial move for the citizens. It still protects against tyranny by not letting any one person control office alone. With the separation of powers they still did not have a situation similar to King George’s tyrannical reign. The separation of powers actually means the separation of the branches, or putting each branch into a separate body of government. This is a great move because it yet again takes all the power from one person and splits it into the branches, which is also protecting us from tyranny. The US Constitution is protecting against tyranny by separation of powers and checks and

Checks and balances are an important part to the Constitution because with them, each of the three branches of government can limit the power of others. This was, no one branch becomes to powerful. If one person has all the power, then it is easy for them to abuse the power. An example for this would be; if Congress could pass laws and determine that they were constitutional, then by the defintion of checks and balanes, all laws that were passed by the Congress would be constitutional. Checks and balances were created because the Founding Fathers feared having an oppressive head of government, like a king. The main importance of these checks and balances is that any action taken by one of the branches of governement, must go through the other

Checks and balances are a way to ensure that no branch including the legislative, executive and judicial branch don’t gain too much power. For example, the judicial branch was given the power to impeach the president. The checks encourage the branches to work together since they cannot be revoked.

In the United States constitution we have a very important system called checks and balances. This system was made to control the power of each branch of Government. Without a structure to control the amount of power each branch has our Government would be controlled by one group of people. Checks and balances help prevent tyranny. The system is very simple however complex and overtime has been put into effect. The overall idea of checks and balances is formed on the observation that people act selfishly and seek to increase their own power and wealth at the cost of others.

The purpose for our Constitution was to implement a new government with three equal branches that balance and check each other. The three branches are formed and is important that the maintain balance in Legislative, executive and Judiciary branches in order for our government to not be overpower each other. The U.S. Constitution established in 1787 with the purpose to provide “America 's national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens.” I strongly feel the order of checks and balance should not be changed and I agree to concept of three branches which maintain branches order and peace in our U.S. Government.