Which branch of goverment makes laws?
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The legislative - Congress (House of Representatives and Senate)\n\nAlthough the current Executive branch likes to think they are above the laws that Congress makes  ;)
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judicial branch of government - judges and courts
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Law makers make laws.  Law enforcement enforces the laws that the lawmakers make.  Two separate entities, each powerful in their own right, but separate nevertheless.
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All laws are drafted in Congress, after they pass through Congress the president may sign them and they become law.  We don't have a king or laws decreeded by the king/President.
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Law making- Making legislation\nRepresentative Institution- Constituent Services.
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This is actually a very involved and complex question.  The powers of the executive also tend to vary with who is in power, and what his approval ratings are at that time.  Over all i'd say the legislative branch retains the most power.  Legislation is technically proposed exclusively by the legislative, with an additional power of over riding a veto with a 2/3rd vote.  In reality the executive branch has a LOT of power in guiding national platforms and legislation.
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The government of the United States, established by the U.S. Constitution, is a federal republic of individual states. The laws of the United States are contained in Acts of Congress; administrative regulations, and judicial cases interpreting the statutes and regulations. The federal government has three branches: the executive, legislative, and judicial. Through "checks and balances", each of these branches has some authority to act on its own, some authority to regulate the other two branches, and has some of its authority, in turn, regulated by one or two other branches.\n\nBecause of the federal government's size, broad powers and capabilities, it is widely considered the most powerful government in the world and the sole remaining superpower. Given their great powers in the world and nation, the President of the United States and his White House-based aides and Cabinet officials often are referred to as the most powerful people in the world.\n\nLegislative branch\nMain article: United States Congress \nThe Constitution grants all legislative powers of the federal government to the Congress, which is divided into two chambers, a Senate and a House of Representatives. The Senate is composed of two members from each state as provided by the Constitution. Membership in the House is based on each state's population, and its size is therefore not specified in the Constitution. Members of the House and Senate are elected by first-past-the-post voting in every state except Louisiana and Washington, which have runoffs.\n\nThe Constitution does not specifically call for the establishment of Congressional committees. As the nation grew, however, so did the need for investigating pending legislation more thoroughly. The 108th Congress (2003-2005) had 19 standing committees in the House and 17 in the Senate, plus four joint permanent committees with members from both houses overseeing the Library of Congress, printing, taxation, and the economy. In addition, each house can name special, or select, committees to study specific problems. Because of an increase in workload, the standing committees have also spawned some 150 subcommittees.\n\nThe Congress has the responsibility to monitor and influence aspects of the executive branch. Congressional oversight prevents waste and fraud, protects civil liberties and individual rights, ensures executive compliance with the law, gathers information for making laws and educating the public, and evaluates executive performance. It applies to cabinet departments, executive agencies, regulatory commissions, and the presidency. Congress's oversight function takes many forms:\n\nCommittee inquiries and hearings; \nFormal consultations with and reports from the President; \nSenate advice and consent for presidential nominations and for treaties; \nHouse impeachment proceedings and subsequent Senate trials; \nHouse and Senate proceedings under the 25th Amendment in the event that the President becomes disabled, or the office of the Vice President falls vacant; \nInformal meetings between legislators and executive officials; \nCongressional membership on governmental commissions; \nStudies by congressional committees and support agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office, and the Government Accountability Office, both of which are arms of Congress. \n\nResponsibilities of a Congressman\nEach individual Congressman must assume five roles. These roles include: legislator, committee member, representative of their constituents, servant of their constituents, and politician.\n\nPowers of Congress\nThe Constitution grants numerous powers to Congress. These include the power to: lay and collect taxes, pay debts, provide for common defense and general welfare of the U.S., borrow money on the credit of the U.S., regulate commerce with other nations, establish a uniform rule of naturalization, coin money and regulate its value, provide for punishment of counterfeiting, establish post
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Checks and Balances\n\nWhen you have three branches of the federal government, you need a government where one branch of government is constantly held in check by the other two branches.  Without a series of checks and balances, the president, congress, or the Supreme Court could take power and a representative democracy could turn slowly into a dictatorship or oligarchy.
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Both the executive and legislative branches can make laws; but its the legislative branch's primary function. The judiciary branch is supposed to apply the law..... but they seem to be creating it these days. :(\n\nEver heard of the Executive Order? The president's legislative ability is limited, but he has it nonetheless.
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By the Constitution of the United States of America, which made provisions for three branches of government:  judicial, legislative and executive.
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Federal branch takes care of business, it also seems to rule over those gray areas of government.\n\nState government rules the state.
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Judicial legislative and executive. the judicial makes law. the executive enforce laws and the legislative is checks and balances.
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The executive is in charge of the government proper.\nthe legislative is charge of the financing and the laws.\nThe Judicary interprets the law according to precident and the constituion.\nStates are seperated along the same lines. Each is responsible for conducting business in a certain way.
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In the system of checks and balances, the executive branch has a check on the legislative because the President has the power to veto bills passed by Congress which then requires a two thirds vote of both houses to override the veto.\n\nThe judicial branch has a check on the legislative because the Supreme Court acts on the constitutionally of the laws passed by Congress.\n\nI hope this helps.
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Government is a system of social control under which the right to make laws, and the right to enforce them, is vested in a particular group in society. \n\nGovernments are distinguished by whether power is held by one man, a few, or a majority. Today, it is common to distinguish between types of government on the basis of institutional organization and the degree of control exercised over the society.\n\nOrganizationally, governments may be classified into parliamentary or presidential systems, depending on the relationship between executive and legislature. Government may also be classified according to the distribution of power at different levels. \n\nThe basic law determining the form of government is called the constitution and may be written, as in the United States, or largely unwritten, as in Great Britain. Modern governments perform many functions besides the traditional ones of providing internal and external security, order, and justice; most are involved in providing welfare services, regulating the economy, and establishing educational systems. The extreme case of governmental regulation of every aspect of people's lives is totalitarianism.
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they write the laws for the executive branch to enforce.
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Sources of law are caselaw (judge made law), statutes, and the Constitution.