Things you would know if they still taught civics in high school or, things you'd better learn while we still have high schools.
C.W. and I were talking …
C.W. and I were talking …
He asked about how our federal government was structured. That prompted me to compose the following in a form suitable for broad dissemination.
So …
There are three branches of the United States federal government:
Legislative Branch (House and Senate) They make laws.
Executive Branch (the President and cabinet) They carry out laws,
Judicial Branch (federal courts, including the Supreme Court) They evaluate the constitutionality of laws).
Legislative Branch (House and Senate) They make laws.
Executive Branch (the President and cabinet) They carry out laws,
Judicial Branch (federal courts, including the Supreme Court) They evaluate the constitutionality of laws).
Interestingly the Judicial Branch
was believed, early on, to be the weakest. Then, in 1803 came the case of Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137. Chief Justice
John Marshall’s court established the principle of judicial review which
claimed the Supreme Court’s right, under Article III of the Constitution, to
determine if a law passed by the legislature and signed by the president is compatible
with the Constitution, and may, thereby, be enforced. (Yes, Virginia, there is
more to the U.S. Constitution than the Second Amendment).
This gave the Supreme Court a level of power perhaps not envisioned originally Who knows? But it's been working that way for over 200 years.
Now, I can pass the foregoing along because I teach public administration at a university. But, please
don’t ask me what happens when a president of the United States of America is
unaware of it because I do not teach abnormal psychology.
Your current Executive Branch leaders. They seem happy. - C.W. |
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