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Prompt: The issue of checks and balances regularly surfaces in many of today’s major political, social, and economic debates.
Explain what checks and balances are
What authorizes them, and their purpose?
How might checks and balances be undermined? What are some examples of proposals to undermine checks and balances?
Provide six examples that are considered valid demonstrations of checks and balances. Select at least three from this list: the President checking and balancing the Congress, the Congress checking and balancing the President, the Judicial checking and balancing the Congress, the President checking and balancing the Judicial, etc. and provide a specific example of each. If you select the judicial checking and balancing Congress, you must supply an example of the judicial balancing and an example of the judicial checking.
Remember to use fairly recent examples that relate to the FEDERAL government not state and local.
Please use this as your basis for the understanding/interpretation of checks and balances:
Check: A check is where the actions taken by one branch are stopped or changed by the actions of another. For example, the President vetoes a bill that Congress passed, the Congress overrides the veto of the President, the Congress impeaches the President or a judge, the Supreme Court finds a bill passed by the Congress and signed into law by the President is unconstitutional.
o Balance: A balance is when one branch recommends or reviews the actions of the other. Example of this would be when the president recommends a Supreme Court nominee and the Senate approves the nominee, when the president recommends legislation for action, or when the Supreme Court decides that a law is constitutional. There is a weighing in, but no action to stop the other branch.
