What is the Legislative Branch power?
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1     When writing the constitution, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention ran into a problem. The states were in fierce disagreement over how to establish the Congress. The smaller states wanted equal division of representatives. The larger states wanted representatives based on population. In coming to a compromise – called The Great Compromise – the delegates divided the Congress into two houses, the Senate, and the House of Representatives.\n \n2     The Senate gives the small states an equal voice in the government. Each state has two Senators who serve six-year terms. In order to serve in the Senate, a person must be thirty years old, have been a U.S. citizen for nine years, and be a resident of the state where elected. The Senate is the more distinguished house in Congress. Members are older and usually have more experience in government. Of the one-hundred members, one-third of the Senate comes up for election every two years. The rotating elections help to maintain the stability of this house of Congress.\n \n3     The Senate has many important jobs of its own. In addition to working on bills, the Senate is responsible for approving many of the decisions of the president. Treaties and appointments of judges, department heads, ambassadors, and agency leaders receive final approval in the Senate. Treaties are given special consideration and must be approved by a two-thirds vote to become law.\n \n4     The leader of the Senate is the vice-president. As leader, the vice-president decides who will speak to the Senate and casts a deciding vote when a tie occurs. However, the vice-president is not a member of the Senate and does not participate in debates about bills.\n \n5     When the Senate discusses a bill, they do not have a strict set of rules to follow. Standard procedures allow debating and amending a bill to continue indefinitely. However, an agreement called "unanimous consent" can change the standard procedures followed. Under "unanimous consent," all of the Senators must agree to modify the procedures. If one individual Senator disagrees, that Senator has the power to stop the modification. When this happens, a bill becomes the victim of a filibuster. In a filibuster, the Senator in disagreement talks on and on about the bill to delay the final vote. In order to end this, sixty Senators must call for cloture, which sets a time limit for debate.\n \n6     The House of Representatives is called the lower house of Congress. There are four-hundred and thirty five members in the House. Every two years the entire House of Representatives is up for election. Representatives must be careful to be the voice of the people for their state. The shorter term gives the people the opportunity to choose someone else when a representative does not follow their wishes. To serve as a representative, a person must be twenty-five years old, a U.S. citizen for seven years, and a resident of the state where elected.\n \n7     Population determines the number of representatives allotted to a state. In order to determine allotment, the federal government takes a census every ten years. State leaders form districts in each state based on the census results. Each district gets one representative. Every state receives at least one representative no matter how small their population may be.\n \n8     In addition to working on laws with the Senate, the House of Representatives has other responsibilities. In a presidential election where a candidate does not receive a majority of the electoral votes, the House of Representatives meets to choose the next President.\n \n9     In addition, a bill concerning taxes must start in the House.
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The most signifigant power in the House is Appropriations.  They control the spending.  The power to declare war must be initiated in the House but ratified in the Senate.  The Senate has the power of the filibuster which can delay, and sometimes, defeat legislation.  All the power in the House rests in the hands of committee chairpersons and so the average Senator is much more powerful than the average Congressman.  The House has 435 members and the Senate only 100 and so a Senator has more clout and prestige.  The function of both houses is to represent different constituencies.  The House was set up for all the people, to be their voice in Washington.  The Senate was originally set up as a kind of aristocracy and Senators were originally appointed and not elected to ensure that the general rabble didn't get too high a hand.  The Senate was given the power to ratify treaties and "advise and consent" in regards to Presidential appointments.  The committee chairpersons in the House and the Speaker of the House are more powerful than the average Senator.  Sorry for rambling.
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Many different legislative bodies, depending on where you are.\n\nIn the US, Congress passes federal legislative laws. State legislative bodies (sometimes called Assemblies, sometimes under other names) pass state laws. And then there are local city and county ordinances, which are still legislatively passed.\n\nOther countries have similar multi-level legislative systems.
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A president's power and influence may be limited, but politically the president is certainly the most important power in Washington.\n\nThough constrained by various other laws passed by Congress, the President's executive branch conducts most foreign policy, and his power to order and direct troops as commander-in-chief is quite significant. (The exact limits of what a President can do with the military without Congressional authorization are unknow, even today)\n\nThere are checks and balances to assure the government is ran according to the constitution.  There are always ways to influence, but the body has more influence on the president, then vise versa.\n\nThe constitution provides certain checks and balances among the three branches of the federal government. The influence of Congress on the presidency has varied from one period to another; it depends largely on the leadership and the political influence of the President. The authors of the Constitution expected the greater power to lie with Congress and that is one reason they are described in Article One. Under the first half-dozen Presidents, power seems to have been evenly divided between the President and Congress, in part because early Presidents largely restricted their vetoes to claims of unconstitutionality.\n\nTo improve their working relationships with Congress, presidents in recent years have set up a Congressional Liaison Office in the White House. Presidential aides keep abreast of all important legislative activities and try to persuade senators and representatives of both parties to support administration policies.\n\n\nHope this helps...
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There are three branches of the government in the U.S.\n1. Executive Branch- this is the president, and his hand- picked cabinet; they usually agree with him on most issues.\n2. Legislative Branch- this is Congress. Congress is The House of Representatives, and The Senate. If the president wants to pass a law, it has to get the majority or 2/3 of the votes in Congress. When the opposite party is in power in Congress, this limits the President's power significantly. Also, if Congress wants to pass a law, the President can veto it if he chooses.\n3. Judicial Branch- this is the courts sytem; The U.S. Supreme Court is the head of this Branch. The Chief Justices decide on many things, but most importantly, they can decide what IS and what ISN'T Constitutional. The President nominates someone for a position in The Supreme Court, but Congress has to approve of his nomination. Of course he usually chooses someone who is sympathetic to his agenda.\nRight now, the Democrats have nearly won control of Congress,\nthis will limit George W. Bush's power, because they will oppose him on most issues. He is a Republican.
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Congress is the only branch of government that can actually make laws regarding immigration and naturalization (Article I, Section 8, Subsection 4.\n\nHowever, the Supreme Court can determine that the law they pass is unconstitutional and toss it or determine to grant certain rights to non-citizens.  The Exectuive Branch can recommend rules, or decide not to enforce one if they don't like it.  The states can pass laws granting rights and privledges to illegals or other non-citizens.\n\nBut to the specific question, it is Congress and Congress alone that holds that power under the Constitution.
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Congress is the legislative branch, and there is no universal head of congress, because congress has two houses.  The senate is chaired by the vice-president.  The House of Representatives is chaired by the speaker of the house.
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Simply it means authority/power that does not originate with the legislative branch of government.  In american govt. non-legislative power originates from the executive and judicial branch in the form of executive orders and judicial review respectively.
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The legislative branch creates legislation and the executive branch enforces it.
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Legislation is law that is made by Parliament or Congress (or a simular body, usually termed "the Legislature") which is an elected body. \n\nIn countries with a consitution, legislation must be supported by a valid grant of power in the consitution, otherwise it will not be a valid law.\n\nLegislation is one of the ways laws are created. Other means include through the decisions of the Courts (Precedent) or by delegation of legal power to a certain person (usually a Minister or Secretary) to make laws (subordinate or deligated legislation).
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The United States federal government is divided into three branches: Executive (the President), Judiciary (the Supreme Court), and Legislative (Congress).\n\nCongress's job is to draft, deliberate, and vote on laws.  The Congress also keeps the other two branches in check, as all Supreme Court nominees must be confirmed by Congress, as do most Presidential nominations and decision.  Technically, at least, it is Congress that declares war, and Congress also has the power to censure or impeach the President.
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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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Technically, the legislature (the House and the Senate). But the President and Vice President often suggest and sponsor laws through congressmen and senators.
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It really depends on the structure of government of the state you're referring to. In a democratic set up, all of the branches of government - executive, legislative and judicial - exercise police power to a certain extent.  The extent of the power is legislated by the Senate and Congress. The Judiciary makes sure that the executive and the legislative branches do not abuse or step out of the bounds of the limits of that power.
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The legislative branch also funds the military (that starts in the House).  The judicial branch (Supreme Court) would interpret specific military laws that are brought before them.  But since active duty military can't sue the government, I don't think that happens too much.
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A bicameral legislative branch allows for states with a smaller population to have a more equal voice in government.  If laws were only written and passed by a representative branch then the larger states would have the most say in legislation, thus being able to force their issues to the front to the detriment of the lower population states.\n\nBy having an branch that puts all states on an equal footing, lower population states can excercise power to ensure that their needs are not trampled by the needs of larger populations.
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The senate is part of the legistlative branch of government, along with the House of Representatives. The president is the executive branch, while the Supreme Court heads the Judiciary branch.