Compare and contrast seperation of powers and check and balances.?
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Checks and balances are a product of the separation of powers, and the reason for separating them in the first place.\n\nHere's an article on Separation of Powers at the U of Chicago:\nhttp://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch10I.html\n\nYou'll find some form of the word "check" used 4 times and "balance" used 6 times. Hope that helps.
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if u mean federalism...its like a cake layers where the government goes thruogh a series of checks and balances, with each layer intertwined and invoved on the next...thats why its known as a marble cake. YUM!!!
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Can I get 10 pts if no one responds? \n\nYou gotta write about the balance of powers. How Supreme Court rules over the Congress.
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read the constitution and ammendments
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It refers to the splitting of government power so that the government doesn't become too powerful.\n\nThe US government is split into three branches- judicial, legislative, and executive. The Judicial branch reviews laws and hears high court cases. The legislative branch passes new laws. The executive branch carries out laws.\n\nChecks and balences is a related concept that means that the seperated powers have similar amounts of power, so that no one group gains undue influence over the others. \n\nIn the US, the legislative branch can pass laws, but the executive branch (Mr. President) can veto them. In turn, the legislative branch can override the veto, and the judicial branch can declare the law unconstitutional.\n\nThe President can be impeached by the Congress, as can judicial court members.\n\nEtc. etc.
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So they can keep each other in check, and no one branch has total control. The way the US was created was to ensure true liberty for its citizens, and this is a big part of it. I wish I could go into more detail, I think it may be referred to as a "system of check and balances."
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democratic government has to have checks and balances, every other country wants a reproduction of american democracy system but their system will not necessarily reflect the values and principles - for instance american government was instituted by the people for the people, british government was instituted for the land owning gentry and does not afford as much power to the common man. an elected second assembly (or houses of parliament) would not have the same effect in our country as it does in america, you would have to appoint people from the streets possible randomly in some cases to have the same effect in britain as in america\n\nthe amendments to the american constitution since the 1970s have eroded the power of the people slightly, there needs to be a lot of work done to redress the balance - europe also has a lot of work to do on this count
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They are EQUAL but separate branches and they all take part in forming and running the Government.
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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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hmm...legislative executive and judicial
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The Judicial Branch. They are able to legislate from the bench by fiat and it is all but impossible to overrule their decisions. Recently they virtually eliminated the concept of private property and have decided in the past that the First Amendment can be severely restricted, just to name a few. The Constitution includes a procedure for amending the Constitution, but the U.S. Supreme Court has managed to bypass these controls time and again.\n\nThe Executive Branch and The Legislative Branch remain a good check and balance over each other, but the Judicial Branch has become a loose cannon.
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When our system of government was created the fears that our founding fathers had about tyranny still existed. To prevent the abuse of power several systems were created. Federalism was created to ensure that state governments could exercise local control and Separation of Powers was created to further divide the power of the national government. Separation of Powers has within it a system of checks and balances. These checks and balances set one branch of government against the other to ensure a healthy competition. This competition safeguards against one branch gaining too much power.\n\nInternally, the legislative branch has its own way of balancing power. The legislative branch, as you know is broken up into two parts or houses. This is known as a bicameral legislature. Each of the houses of Congress has its differences and there are something they must do together as well.
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There is no order, that is why there is separation of powers, proposed originally by Baron de Montesque (or however you spell that).  There are three branches, executive, legislative, and judicial, that all have certain responsibilities and that all have to check on the other branches.  If you are not asking about the United States government, then I don't know.
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huge difference one was democratically elected and kept it, and installed his own party to control everything. The other had to be re-elected and has competetion..thats why they call it a democracy.
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Are you talking about the English Magna Carta or the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the USA.???\nIt is confusing.
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Set them side by side and read both.\n\nComparing tells how they are alike; contrasting tells how they are different.\n\nIf you have a text book, it should tell you how they are alike or differ, perhaps without reading the whole of both charters.\n\nDoes the Georgia Constitution set up an Executive Branch?  A legislative Branch?  A Judicial Branch?  Does it give the duties of each, how they are elected or appointed, and length of terms?  Does it include amendments added to it?  These are all things that the US Constitution has/does.  Look closer, at each document, for more (and more specific) likenesses and differences.\n\nPeace.\n\n:)
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the US government is separated into three branches of goverment that theoretically ensure a balance of power.  These branches are the legistislature (house & senate), exectutive (president) and the judicial (supreme court).  \n\nEach branch is designed to work independent of one another, though at the same time work with each other to create laws, implement policy and to interpret the constitution through the judicial process. \n\nA governor is similar to the executive branch, but for a state. \n\nCongressman are those who are elected to the House of Representatives and Senators are those who are elected to the Senate.  Each state is represented by 2 senators for a total of 100.  The number of representatives from each state to the House is determined by its population.  The House and Senate were both created to ensure equal representation of all states, without favoring larger states.\n\nThe House of Representatives writes legistlation (laws).  But before they are made into laws, the Senate must vote on a 51-49 majority to pass it into law and the president must sign the law to become official. \n\nHope this helps!