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Name: Ismahan Omar

Unit 4 Project
ESSENTIAL QUESTION 4.1: How do the three branches of government work together to
create new and enforce existing public policies?
For Unit 4, you are challenged with identifying real examples of the different powers of our
government. For each branch, first identify and explain powers that are held, and then post
current examples of that power in action.
PART 1: For the Legislative Branch, you will report on nine (9) of the powers listed in Article 1,
Section 8 in the Constitution. Choose from the powers pertaining to the following topics:
Taxation:
-The power of taxation is the
power to lay and collect
taxes; the Legislative branch
have control over taxation
and regulating the spendings
of politics
-Example: one example of
the use of taxation is on
Education.

Borrowing Money:
-The power which a nation
could depended on its credit
standing.
-Example: During tough
economic times government
spendings automatically
increases because there is
increasing in the number of
people eligible for need
based programs like food
stamps and unemployment
benefits.

Regulating Commerce:
-The power to regulate
commerce with foreign
nations and among the
states.
-Example: Regulating
railroads; busses also
telephone companies.

Naturalization:
-The power to establish a
uniform rule of Naturalization
which is a legal act or
process by which a non
citizen may acquire
citizenship.
-Example: The immigrants
who enters the U.S everyday
that are being in the process
Naturalization.

Bankruptcy
-Process in which consumers
and business can eliminate or
repay their debts under the
protection of the federal
bankruptcy court.
-Example: an example of
bankruptcy is student loans.

Coining Money:
-The power to coin money;
and regulate the value
thereof and foreign countries.
-Example: The problem of a
national coinage system took
a great importance during the
revolutionary War .

Weights and Measures:


- The power to fix the
standard of weights and
measures which is necessary
for science; industry and
commerce .
-Example:The National
Bureau of Standards.

Post Offices:
-Implied authority to carry;
deliver and regulate the mails
of the United States.
-Example: It happens to our
everyday life where we get
mails or send mails.One the
examples is Kings
transportation Monopoly

Patents and Copyrights:


-Protection provided by the
law for the inventions or
discoveries of a persons
procedures developed.
-Example: The English
Statute of monopolies.

Declaring War:
-The power to a formal act or
order which nation goes to
war .
-Example: Declare war on
Iraq.

Raising Army and Navy:


-Raise and support Army and
Navy but no appropriation of
money to that should be more
than two years.
-Example:A strong and
standing army after the
revolution.

PART 2: For the Executive Branch, you will report on six (6) of the powers listed in Article 2,
Section 2 & 3 in the Constitution. Cover all of the powers pertaining to the following topics:
Commander in Chief
-The president shall be the
commander in chief of the
army and navy of the U.S and
of the militia of the several
states when called into the
actual service of the United
States.
-Example: U.S troops to
Southeast Asia.

Pardons:
-Mitigates or sets aside the
punishment of a crime.
-Example: The case of Jame
R Hoffa .

Treaties:
-Gives the president the
power to propose and chiefly
negotiate agreements
between the U.S and other
countries.
-Example:Treaties been used
in many different ways for
example Human Rights

Ambassadors:
-The power of sending and
receiving ambassadors
-Example: Marrison V Oslan;
487 US 654 had an effect on
it.

Supreme Courts Judges:


-The supreme court of the
United states is the highest
judicial body and the judicial
power of the united states
should be vested in one
supreme court.

State of the Union:


-The state of the union is the
address presented by the
president of the United States
to a joint session of the united
states congress.

PART 3: For the Judicial Branch, you will report on three (3) of the powers listed in Article 3,
Section 2 & 3. Cover all of the powers pertaining to the following topics:
Judicial Review:
-Review by the U.S supreme
court which the Legislative
and executive actions are
subject to review by the
judicial.

Issues Between States:


-The issues of dispute
between states.

Treason:
-The crime of betraying one's
country.

PART 4: Checks and Balances ensure that no individual branch of government becomes too
powerful. Provide an explanation and a current example of how each branch checks the power
of the other.
Legislative checks Executive:

Legislative checks Judicial:

*Congress can overturn a presidential veto


with vote of both houses.
*Senate can reject proposed treaties .
*Senate can reject presidential nomination of
federal officials or judges.
*Congress can impeach and remove the
president.

*Congress can create lower courts.


*Senate can reject nominees to the federal
courts / supreme courts.
*Congress can amend the constitution to
overturn decisions of the supreme court.
*Congress can impeach judges and remove
from the bench.

Executive checks Legislative:


*President have the power to veto laws
passed by the congress.
*proposes laws to congress.
*submits the federal budgets to the house of
representatives.
*Appoints federal officials who carry out and
enforces laws.

Executive checks Judicial:


*Nominates judges to the supreme courts.
*Nominates judges to the federal court
system.
*President have the power to pardon
individuals convicted of crimes.
*President can grant amnesty; forgive class of
crime.

Judicial checks Executive:


*Supreme court can use the power of judicial
review to rule laws unconstitutional .

Judicial checks Legislative:


*Supreme court can use the power of judicial
review to rule presidential actions
unconstitutional.
*Supreme court can use the power of judicial
review to rule treaties unconstitutional.

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