The document outlines five key principles of the United States Constitution: popular sovereignty, limited government, federalism, separation of powers, and checks and balances. It discusses how power is divided and shared between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches at both the federal and state levels to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful. The three branches can check each other through powers like vetoing laws, confirming appointments, and declaring laws unconstitutional.
This presentation was developed as an introduction to the Boy Scout merit badge, Citizenship in the Nation. It can also be used as an overview for an American Government class.
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Congress and the President
The way our legislative and the executive branches run our country have its roots to the beginning of our country and our constitution. Our founding fathers were intent on making sure neither the president had too much power and wanted to be sure they had very specific powers and roles within our new government. These two powerful and important roles are known as Congress and the Presidency.Congress
Congress is a Bicameral house made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The makeup of these two houses was chosen very carefully by our founding fathers at the Constitutional convention. The Senate is made up by two senators from each state as to give all states equal representation. This idea was proposed through the New Jersey Plan which proposed that all states had “equal representation regardless of population” (“The Almost Painless Guide, ”2000). The house of representative, on the other hand, is built based on the population of each state with the larger states having more representatives than the smaller states an idea proposed by the Virginia Plan laid out at the Constitutional Convention. These two parts that make up the legislative branch are tasked with making new laws, handling any impeachment proceedings, recommend amendments to the constitution, make budgets, and check the president’s decisions on personnel and treaties and vetoes by gaining a two-thirds vote to stop any of his decisions.
Powers of the President and Congress
Through Article I section 8 of the constitution congress has its most important power which is the ability to create laws. When a bill or any proposed law is up for a vote it can only be passed if the House of Representatives and the Senate both approve it in the same form. Congress also has the powers to “declare war, coin money, raise an army and navy, regulate commerce, establish rules of immigration and naturalization, and establish the federal courts and their jurisdictions ("The Powers of Congress", 2018). According to Article II of the constitution, the president has the power to commission officers of the armed forces, grant reprieves, and pardons, convene Congress in special sessions, wield executive power, receive ambassadors, and ensure that laws are being executed correctly. One of the aforementioned executive powers the president has is to veto a law or bill though even if that happens congress can overturn the veto with a two-thirds vote.
Checks and Balances
The founding fathers of the US were wise to set up a form of checks and balances built into the constitution to ensure no branch of government could garner too much power and guard against tyranny. “If men were angels, no government would be necessary,” James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers, of the necessity for checks and balances. “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first .
1 The sources of law! wonderful topic to discuss about. The firhirstcruz
1: The sources of law! wonderful topic to discuss about. The first source of law is constitutional law. Two constitutions are applicable in every state: the federal or US Constitution, which is in force throughout the United States of America, and the state's constitution. The US Constitution created our legal system, "The Legal System in the United States". States' constitutions typically focus on issues of local concern.
Of all the sources of law, constitutional law is considered the highest and should not be supplanted by either of the other sources of law. Pursuant to principles of federal supremacy, the federal or US Constitution is the most preeminent source of law, and state constitutions cannot supersede it.
2: Professor, the source I choose to describe is treaties. Treaties are promises of peace between the US. and a foreign country. Using these treaties as ways to increase and shape foreign trade and business influences. What I learned from reading is that the President must have two thirds consent from congress to achieve a successful treaty with a foreign country. There is a down side of making treaties because of neighboring countries and the foreign relations with other countries or nations can cause hostile or more negotiations with them. Trade laws with foreign countries Switzerland's for its chocolate.
3: Great post. When a treaty is negotiated and ratified, as you said, by 2/3 of the Senate, what effect does it have on people in the US? Can it be ignored, or is it a law?
4: The sources of law are; the Constitutions, Treaties, Codified law: statues and ordinances, Executive orders, Regulations and orders of administrative agencies, and Judicial decisions.
The U.S. Constitution takes precedence over all law as it is supreme law of the land. It establishes the federal government and any law that conflicts with the U.S. Constitution, whether federal, state or local is unconstitutional and unenforceable. Powers that are not given to the federal government are reserved to the states and the individual state establish their governments and enumerate their powers (Cheeseman, 2014).
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
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