The Supreme Court of Colombia has several primary functions:
1. Acting as the highest court of appeals and interpreting the constitution.
2. Judging senior government officials like the president and cabinet ministers for criminal offenses.
3. Settling disputes between different branches of government.
I use a flip chart for the 7 Principles that the kids make and can take notes on. There are diagrams on some of the slides too. Definitions are included on every slide along with examples of each principle.
I use a flip chart for the 7 Principles that the kids make and can take notes on. There are diagrams on some of the slides too. Definitions are included on every slide along with examples of each principle.
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 .
2. The plebiscite The referendum is one of the mechanisms of participation that the Constitution provides for Colombians to participate in political decisions that affect them. bureaucratic bureaucracy is an organization or organizational structure characterized by explicit and regularized procedures, division of responsibilities and specialization of labor, hierarchy and impersonal relationships. Commander in Chief The office itself means that it is the commander of all armed forces of the country. What are the functions of the supreme court 1. Acting as a court of appeal. 2. Judge President of the Republic or whoever replaces him and the judges of the High Court of Justice, Council of State and the Constitutional Court, members of the Council of the Judiciary and the Attorney General's Office, for any act offense imputed to them (art. 174 and 175 no. 2 and 3). 3. Investigate and prosecute members of Congress. 4. Judge, after being indicted by the Prosecutor General's Office, the Cabinet ministers, the Attorney General's Office, the Ombudsman, the prosecutors before the Court, before the Council of State and the courts, to directors of administrative departments, the Comptroller General of the Republic, to the ambassadors and heads of diplomatic or consular mission, the governors, magistrates courts and the generals and admirals of the security forces, punishable by the facts that against them. 5. Know all the contentious business of diplomatic agents accredited to the national government, as provided by international law. 6. To draft its own rules.
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4. The primary function of the US Supreme Court is interpreting the Constitution. The Supreme Court of the United States has the ultimate responsibility for settling disputes and interpreting the meaning of laws. It also determines what national policy will be when it applies law to specific disputes. The role of the Supreme Court to examine the actions of local, state, and national governments and to rule unconstitutional any actions by those political bodies is known as Judicial Review. What is a Cabinet Minister?A minister is a politician who holds significant public office in a national or regional government Senior ministers are members of the cabinet. What are the judicial districts?U.S. House of Representatives: Each state is divided into districts according to population. Larger the population, the more districts. Every state is guaranteed at least one Representative. Each district within each state elects a Representative to the House. U.S. Senate. Each state the people elect two Senators from their state.For purposes of the federal judicial system, Congress has divided the United States into judicial districts. There is at least one district in each state and many states are divided into more than one. Some districts are further divided into divisions, and some districts and some divisions have more than one place where the federal district court holds trials.
5. The Senate, as one house of Congress, has the powers outlined in Article I, section 8 of the Constitution. The Senate has several exclusive powers that are also mentioned in Article One. The Senate must approve treaties with other nations; major appointments of the President, like ambassadors and members of the federal judiciary, must be approved by the Senate; the Senate acts as the jury in impeachment cases and to be removed from office, the impeached officer must be convicted by a two-thirds vote in the Senate. Explain the concept State of SiegeA state of siege is a situation in which a government or other authority puts restrictions on the movement of people into or out of a country, town, or building. What is a bureaucracy?Bureaucracy is the combined organizational structure, procedures, protocols, and set of regulations in place to manage activity, usually in large organizations.
6. What were decree-laws?A decree is a rule of law issued by a head of state, according to certain procedures (usually established in a constitution). What are the main functions of Congress?There are three main functions. One is make and approve new laws. The other is to reform the constitution and the last one is and develop political control. How many houses does the Congress have? Explain The Senate is the upper house of Congress and has one hundred members - two from each state . The House of Representatives, commonly referred to as the House, is the lower house of the houses of congress. The composition and powers of the House and the Senate are established in Article One of the Constitution.
