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    In the government, there are three main branches. These branches are known as executive, legislative, and judicial. The three branches were created to divide power in the federal government. The reasoning for the division of power is so that not one group or person would have too much power. “The delegates were afraid that if a small group received too much power, the United States would wind up under the rule of another dictator or tyrant” (Kids.gov A Safe Place to Learn and Play, 2017). Each branch

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    The government has many purposes,the sole purpose being to regulate the economy and provide a stable foundation for the country.Also the purposes is to serve and protect the people it governs without infringing on individuals God give rights.Absolute is all about a type of national monarchy in which the monarch has a great power and it refer to philosophical stances which promote notions of absolute truth,involving contentions that in particular realms of thought.The enlightenment period took place

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    Branches of Government The Legislative Branch of the government is the branch that creates the laws of our country. To create a law they have to go through a long, strung out process. The majority must agree with the law for it to be sent to the President, for he/ she to sign off on it. If the President does not agree with the law, or just does not want it to go into affect, he/ she can veto that law. If the President decides to veto the law, the Legislative branch can come back and veto that decision

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    Constitution. The Constitution created a framed, strong, central government while not having a tyrant/dictator. The Constitution stops tyranny by distributing power between states and central government, having three branches of government, and giving each of the three branches of government the power to limit each other’s power. The Constitution stops tyranny by distributing power throughout the states and the central government. The central government regulates trade, conducts foreign relations, provides

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    Three Branches of Government One of the most important documents in American history is the Constitution. The Constitution was written in 1787, because the states had more power than the federal government. The government of the U.S. is divided into three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. These three branches work together by checking and balancing one another. The cooperation between the three branches is called the checks and balance system. The three branches of the U.S. government

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    Three Branches of the Federal Government In May 1787, 55 delegates from 12 states, Rhode Island declined, met in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention. The purpose of the convention was to revise the Articles of Confederation, but what occurred was the writing of the U.S. Constitution. George Washington was unanimously elected as President of the Convention. After four months of deliberations Gouveneur Morris submitted the final draft and 39 of the 55 delegate present signed the Constitution

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    Branches of Government The United States Constitution developed the three branches of government because under the Articles of Confederation, the government did not have enough power to deal with the consist emerging problems that were occurring at the time. Such problems lead to the Constitutional Convention, which was how the three branches of government were created (The Constitution, 2015). Traditionally, the branches of government are broken up into three different aspects, which have different

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    HIS/301 Branches of Government Paper University of Phoenix July, 26 2010 Branches of Government Former President Thomas Jefferson once said, “Government are instituted among Men, deriving their just Power from the Consent of the Governed.” Since the second continental congress declared America’s independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776 the United States government has sought to realize the fundamental principle on which our nation was founded. This was the start of the government

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    three branches of government: the Judiciary, Legislative, and Executive branch. All three branches serve with equal power and each branch has the right to “check and balance” the other branches in order to keep every branch from being too over powered. The Supreme Court rules the Judiciary branch while the President rules over the Executive branch, and while Congress rules over the Legislative branch. What if the textbooks and lessons were wrong? Could there be a fourth branch of government? Yes

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    knows that the three branches make up our government. Well do we actually need three branches of government or only need two branches of government. We might just need two branches of government which might be executive and legislative. These are the most prominent branches because they have better checks than the judicial . Without furthermore notice you should know some facts about the three branches of government. The three branches make up the federal government. Each branch has different

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