Create a graphic organizer in your notebook on the three branches of government- Legislature, Executive and Judiciary . Mention each of their roles and responsibilities.
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Legislative—Makes laws (Congress, comprised of the House of Representatives and Senate)
Legislative—Makes laws (Congress, comprised of the House of Representatives and Senate)Executive—Carries out laws (president, vice president, Cabinet, most federal agencies)
Legislative—Makes laws (Congress, comprised of the House of Representatives and Senate)Executive—Carries out laws (president, vice president, Cabinet, most federal agencies)Judicial—Evaluates laws (Supreme Court and other courts)
The Legislative Branch of our government makes the laws.
The Executive Branch of our government enforces our laws.
What are the two parts of our Congress? Senate and House of Representatives.
There are 100 senators.
The President is elected by eligible United States citizens who vote and by the Electoral College system.
Senators and representatives are elected by voters in their states.
Justices study laws to see if they are correct according to the Constitution.
Where do the major branches of our federal government meet and work? Washington D.C.
The President is the leader of the Executive Branch of our government.
Explanation:
Separation of Powers
The Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu coined the phrase “trias politica,” or separation of powers, in his influential 18th-century work “Spirit of the Laws.” His concept of a government divided into legislative, executive and judicial branches acting independently of each other inspired the framers of the U.S. Constitution, who vehemently opposed concentrating too much power in any one body of government
In the Federalist Papers, James Madison wrote of the necessity of the separation of powers to the new nation’s democratic government: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
Legislative Branch
the legislative branch (the U.S. Congress) has the primary power to make the country’s laws. This legislative power is divided further into the two chambers, or houses, of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Executive Branch
the Constitution states that the executive branch, with the president as its head, has the power to enforce or carry out the laws of the nation.
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Judicial Branch
the nation’s judicial power, to apply and interpret the laws, should be vested in “one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.”