Congress
Q. What is the role of the executive branch regarding laws?
The executive branch carries out and enforces laws. It includes the president, vice president, the Cabinet, executive departments, independent agencies, and other boards, commissions, and committees. American citizens have the right to vote for the president and vice president through free, confidential ballots.
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- Q. What is the role of the executive branch regarding laws?
- Q. What does the executive branch do make laws interpret laws carry out laws revise laws?
- Q. What does the executive power do?
- Q. How many times has US history formally declared war?
- Q. What does it mean that Congress can declare war?
- Q. Which of the following has the power to declare war establish a post office maintain an army make money and regulate commerce?
Q. What does the executive branch do make laws interpret laws carry out laws revise laws?
Answer: The executive branch carries out and enforces laws.
Q. What does the executive power do?
The executive executes and enforces law. In political systems based on the principle of separation of powers, authority is distributed among several branches (executive, legislative, judicial)—an attempt to prevent the concentration of power in the hands of a single group of people.
Q. How many times has US history formally declared war?
Since 1789, Congress has declared war 11 times, against 10 countries, during five separate conflicts: Great Britain (1812, War of 1812); Mexico (1846, War with Mexico); Spain (1898, Spanish-American War, also known as the War of 1898); Germany (1917, World War I); Austria-Hungary (1917, World War I); Japan (1941, World …
Q. What does it mean that Congress can declare war?
A declaration of war is a formal declaration issued by a national government indicating that a state of war exists between that nation and another. Since then, every American president has used military force without a declaration of war.
Q. Which of the following has the power to declare war establish a post office maintain an army make money and regulate commerce?
Delegated (sometimes called enumerated or expressed) powers are specifically granted to the federal government in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. This includes the power to coin money, to regulate commerce, to declare war, to raise and maintain armed forces, and to establish a Post Office.
