On September 26, 2016, 84 million people tuned in to the most watched debate in American history (Battaglio). 84 million of the 135 million people who are estimated to vote in the United States’ 2016 presidential election fulfilled their citizen duties on becoming aware of the candidates’ policies in order to make an informed decision when voting happens in November (Battaglio). About 60% of estimated voters watched the raw debate so where will the rest of the voters get their information from? They will most likely watch the morning or evening news the next day but the problem is that the news will not be covering the hard facts of the debate. They will be talking about how many times Trump interrupted Clinton, Clinton’s ‘robotic’ answers, and possibly even update us on Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s divorce. The viewers will miss out on being informed about important issues such as tax policies and wage gaps that Americans face everyday. They are going to be informing us on things that grab our attention, things that will raise their viewership and make them more money. News outlets are now entertainment driven. As Al Gore points out in The Assault of Reason, the idea of celebrification of the news negatively affected our public sphere in 2007 and continues to harm the public sphere today. As a result, the public sphere is worse off today than in 2007. Our Founding Fathers broke our government into three branches: executive, legislative and judicial, with the hope that
When the founders were creating the Constitution for the new nation they wanted to keep the freedoms of the United States but wanted to have a strong government. They thought the best way to get a strong government but to keep the people’s rights were to create the three branches of government. The three branches of government are Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branch. Legislative makes laws, Executive enforces the laws, and the Judicial branch explains the laws. Know we will key on the Legislative Branch.
The US Constitution divides the federal government into three branches - legislative, executive, and judicial. The legislative branch, consisting of the House of Representative and the Senate, make laws,
The leaders at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 desired an unbiased, fair government. They believed they could keep a strong yet non-oppressive government form by creating three divided branches. The branches are the legislative, judicial and executive branches. The legislative branch is led by Congress which is split up into the Senate and the House of Representatives. The judicial branch is fronted by the Supreme Court. The executive branch is headed by the President of the United States. The three separate branches are necessary because it forms a sense of stability for the different motives of the different divisions.
The founding fathers that created the Constitution created a system of government that composed of three different branches. Each branch has a
When forming the three branches, James Madison knew they each had to be separated, but have equal power, thus giving different jobs to each and solving the issue of one possibly gaining too much power(Document B). The job given to the legislative branch is to illustrate, or make, laws and consists of the Senate and House of Representatives(Ibid). The executive branch now enforces those laws and the power is in the hands of the President(Ibid). The judicial branch is powered by the Supreme Court and has the job of forming courts and making sure laws are dealt with correctly(Ibid). This separation of powers guards against tyranny by balancing power so one branch is not higher than
The 1980 presidential election of the United States featured three primary candidates, Republican Ronald Reagan, Democrat Jimmy Carter and liberal Republican John Anderson. Ronald Reagan was the governor of California before he decided to run for the presidency. John Anderson was a representative in Illinois and Carter was the incumbent. The lengthy Iran hostage crisis sharpened public opinions by the beginning of the election season. In the 1970s, the United States were experiencing a straining episode of low economic growth, high price increases and interest rates and an irregular energy crisis. The sense of discomfort in both domestic and foreign affairs in the nation were heading downward, this added to the downward spiral that was already going on. Between Carter, Anderson and Reagan, the general election campaign of the 1980s seemed more concerned with shadowboxing around political issues rather than a serious discussion of the issues that concerned voters.
The first three articles of the United States Constitution establish the three branches of the government. The first article is the legislative branch, the second the legislative branch, and the third is the judicial branch. Each is designed, so that no branch of government has too much power over the other branch. The branches generally need approval from one other branch to proceed with an item that is on their agenda. Without this balance one branch would have too much power in which would lop side the government on one side.
Furthermore, the Legislative makes the laws. Executive, enforces the laws. And Judicial, judges the laws. This way, each of these branches can check each other. Federalist paper #47 states, “Liberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate and distinct.¨ This is saying that without the power being divided between the three branches of government, there would be
The constitution of the United States divides the federal government into three branches to make sure no individual or group will have too much power. They are the Executive (President and about 5,000,000 workers), Legislative (Senate and House of Representatives), and Judicial (Supreme Court and lower courts). These ensure the government is effective and citizens’ rights are protected, each branch has their own power and responsibilities, including working with the other branches. The executive power enforces the law while the legislative power makes new laws and amends existing laws. Judicial power has the authority to review the constitutionality of laws.
The constitution was established by men who had experienced the dictatorships of Europe and had escaped from its grasp. They sought to establish a form of government that would never allow a dictatorship or tyrant ruler to hold power over the people like in the places they had fled. With their creation of the foundation of what our government is today they created a system where 3 branches were all of equal power and each could be overruled by another which prevented any branch becoming superior of another. The separation of powers provides a system of shared power called Checks and Balances.(2) The three branches are legislative, judicial and executive and they each have specific powers to
The founding fathers of the American Constitution divided the government up into the following three branches to prevent the majority from ruling with an iron fist; legislative, judicial, and executive. The three braches were created by the Constitution: Article 1, Legislative branch made up of the House and the Senate, collectively known as Congress; Article 2, Executive
| James Madison and the other authors of the Constitution created three branches to make sure that the government’s powers were limited.
One person by the name Edward Burke said “The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse”. The writers of the constitution didn’t want one person or group to have too much power. That’s when they decided to divide the government into three branches to make sure a central government. The three branches are legislative, executive, and the judicial branch.
The presidential elections of United States of America take an indirect form where citizens of the U.S who are registered as voters in one of the states in U.S which are usually 50 states, or the District of Columbia, cast ballots for Electoral College members, referred to as electors. These electors then in turn cast direct votes known as electoral votes in their respective state capitals for president and vice president positions of the United States. Each states casts as many electoral votes that is equal to the number of its Senators and representatives in Congress, while in Washington, D.C. they cast the same number of electoral votes as the least represented state, which is three. The day when registered voters cast their ballots is called the Election Day. This paper is going to generally discuss the presidential elections history, an outline of the process of the process of presidential elections, constitutional requirements for presidential candidates in the U.S, presidential nominations, general elections campaigning, Electoral College and lastly inauguration.
The constitution of the United States divides the federal government into three branches: Legislative branch, executive branch, and judicial branch. The legislative branch is the one responsible to make laws, executive branch carries out laws and finally judicial branch is about evaluating laws.