Sunday, November 13, 2011
In Constitution Isn't Congress Supposed To Run The Country?
Our government is set up on a system of checks and balances. This was done so that one section of the government did NOT hold all of the power. Congress, which is comprised of the congress and the senate, makes the laws. Their mission is to debate new bills and either vote them into law or reject them. Once a bill is ped by both houses, it is forwarded to the Executive branch, the President. The President has to either sign the bill into law, or veto the bill. If a bill is vetoed, it returns to the congress. Now instead of a simple majority to p the bill, it has to be ped by 2/3's of congress. If there are not enough votes to do this, the bill dies. Sometimes a bill is ped that is unconstitutional, or appears to be unconstitutional. The people can then bring the bill before the Judicial branch of government. The Judicial branch is the courts. If the law is deemed unconstitutional it is dead and the subject will have to start all over again in the congress. The problem we are having right now is like the one you have with teenagers. You have a President that is testing the limits of the constitution. He is seeing how many of the rules he can bend or break without punishment. The more he gets away with the bolder he gets. We, the American people, need to start calling him on his actions and writing to the congress when he oversteps his bounds. Congress is like the parents of the teenager, they have the power to punish when limits are pushed too far. Hope this helps
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