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    Why is the Separation of Powers still as important today as it was when the founders wrote the U.S. Constitution? The Separation of Powers is still important because it Prevents tyranny and it involves the people in the government. The government is separated into three parts: the judicial branch, the legislative, and the executive branch. This establishes a system of Checks and Balances. This system can prevent tyranny. Tyranny is when one person hold too much power over and does not use the…

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    components: federalism, separation of powers, and the Bill of Rights. Federalism was established to increase power within the central national government, without striping the power of the states. This was to provide competition between the nation and state, so a sense of limitation could be taken into effect. On the other hand, separation of powers was created so that the government was divided into three different branches, each having some power of their own, as well as some power over the…

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    Having a separation of powers only redoubles the time it take to resolve issues that are needed to be solved urgently. For example: with three branches withholding almost all power of decisive means for the American people; passing important laws, bills, and making decisions that involve new changes for the people are reviewed over extensively and over-excessively, leading to an unneeded delay over all decisions. The Judicial review is the leading conflicting government power in which the…

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    King of Great Britain. In this system, there is a leader of the nation known as the president who has many powers, but the founding fathers constructed the constitution in a way that would prevent the president from becoming a tyrant. The president is prevented from becoming a tyrant by having limited power. The two main principles that puts limits on the president’s powers is separation of powers and checks and balances. The application of these principles can be found in the Constitution and…

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    Coined by Charles-Louis de Secondat, an 18th century political philosopher, the expression "separation of powers", was a saying that created the foundation of today’s governing. The separation of powers refers to the breaking-up of government accountabilities into individual branches (judicial, legislative, executive) that limit any other branch of holding too much power in the rule; thus creating checks and balances. Checks and balances say that each section can check the rulings of another and…

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    The separation of powers in the United States government is very important to the power distribution of the government. If we were to have a government that is structured on just one person in power, it could be another repeat of Hitlers ruling. With multiple people being in power, it makes sure that no one single person can create an oppressive ruling with unfair laws and punishments. With the separation of power, there are three branches in charge of running the united states; the legislative…

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    Government December 4, 2016 Test #2 1. Give a brief explanation of the separation of power between the three branches. Include the concepts of judicial review, executive order, or congress’s controlling America’s purse. Include examples discussed in class of separation of powers issues found in War, and America’s creation of a budget. The best known thing of the presidential framework is the division of power. Three branches share the power of the United States government. When all is said and…

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    What does the Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances do for America? Seperation of Powers seperates the three branches of government. Checks and Balances checks the different branches and balances it. The government is divided into the executive, judicial and legislative branches. Once broken down they all have different jobs they do. The executive branch is ran by the president. The executive branch also includes the Vice President and the Cabinet members. 15 major departments of the…

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    had fought for would be protected. They were apprehensive that the government would have too much power over the people which is what the Constitution secures. There are four vital factors of the Constitution that make sure the Government doesn’t have too much power over the people which is the separation of power, big states and small states, federalism, and checks and balances. Separation of power is imperative to make it so the Government isn’t a tyranny. There are three parts of the…

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    flows in the America's government system. Chapter 2 "The First Challenge: Separation of Power" gives a insight on how the separation of power system is cause government to be unaccountable and unresponsive. It also talks about how a parliamentarian system is more efficient. First how does Separation of Powers prevent control, responsiveness, and accountability? Separation-of-power makes it so that no one branch has compete power and they all work independently as well as together. Each branch…

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