Branches of theGovernment

Chase Phillips

Taxation:    A means by which government finance their expenditure

by imposing charges on citizens and corporate entities. Governments use taxation to encourage or discourage

certain economic decisions. For example, reductions in taxable personal (or household) income by the amount paid as interest on home mortgages loan results in greater construction activity, and generates more jobs.

Examples: Sales tax, property tax, and income tax.

Legislative Branch

Borrowing Money Using others money to benefit you with

intentions of paying them back. Examples: Loans, mortgages.

Legislative branch

Regulating Commerce Intrastate, or domestic, commerce is trade

that occurs solely within the geographic borders of one state. As it does not move across state lines, intrastate commerce is subject to the exclusive control of the state.

Examples: Electric company, water supply.

Regulating Commerce

Naturalization The legal act or process by which a non-

citizen in a country may acquire citizenship or nationality of that country.

Examples: Mexicans= Visa

Legislative branch

Bankruptcy The state of being completely lacking in a

particular quality or value Examples: No more money to spend

Legislative branch

Coining money A piece of gold, silver or other metal

stamped by authority of the government, in order to determine its value, commonly called money. For the different kinds of coins of the United States, see article Money. As to the value of foreign coins, see article Foreign Coins.

Examples: Nickels, Pennies, Dimes

Legislative branch

Weights and Measures Act of Parliament determining the regulation

of weights and measures. The acts may catalogue lawful weights and measures, prescribe the mechanism for inspection and enforcement of the use of such weights and measures and may set out circumstances under which they may be amended.

Examples: Measurments, Currency

Legislative branch

Post offices The public department or corporation

responsible for mail services and (in some countries) telecommunications.

Examples: FedEx, UPS

Legislative branch

Patents and copyrights The exclusive right granted by a

government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.

Legislative branch

Declaring war The act of being in a conflict with other

personnel Pres. Bush declared war on Irag

Legislative branch

Raising army and navy Army can not enforce on you for a place to

live

Legislative branch

Commander in chief head of state or officer in supreme

command of a country's armed forces. Example: Barack Obama

Executive branch

Pardons the action of forgiving or being forgiven for

an error or offense. Examples: Presidential pardons may be

issued for times served for good behavior or new evidence

Executive branch

Treaties a formally concluded and ratified agreement

between countries. Examples: don’t want to go to war so the

sign treaties with other counties.

Executive branch

Ambassadors an accredited diplomat sent by a country as

its official representative to a foreign country.

Examples: Max Sieben Baucus(China), Caroline Kennedy(Japan)

Executive branch

Supreme court judges The highest federal court in the United

States, consisting of nine justices and having jurisdiction over all other courts in the nation.

James Wilson, John Jay, Samuel Chase.

Executive branch

State of the Union State of the Union address definition. An

annual message delivered to Congress by the president of the United States, in which he describes the condition of the country, outlines the nation's most serious problems, and proposes his annual program of legislation.

Example: Speech given by the preident

Executive branch

Judicial review review by the US Supreme Court of the

constitutional validity of a legislative act Examples: Roe vs. Wade legal rights for

abortion changing over time

Judicial branch

Issues between states Problems occurring between different states Examples: Legalization of marijuana vs non

legal states, Gay marriage vs. Non gay marriage states

Judicial branch

Treason The crime of betraying one's country,

especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government

Example: Philip Vigol and John Mitchell, convicted of treason and sentenced to hanging; pardoned by George Washington; see Whiskey rebellion.

Judicial branch

Each branch of government have different rights so no one branch gets too strong.

Checks and Balances

Legislative check Executive by creating laws or impeaching people.

Legislative check Judicial by making new laws

Executive checks legislative by vetoing laws Executive checks judicial by appointing

judges Judicial checks legislative by changing the

laws through judicial review Judicial checks executive by interpreting the

laws

Examples