The best example of checks and balances is that the president can veto any bill passed by Congress, but a two-thirds vote in Congress can override the veto. Other examples include: The president can appoint Supreme Court judges, but the Senate must approve these choices.

Executive Branch

• Checks on the Legislature. Veto power. Vice President is President of the Senate. Commander in chief of the military.
• Checks on the Judiciary. Power to appoint judges. Pardon power.
• Checks on the Executive. Vice President and Cabinet can vote that the President is unable to discharge his duties.

Terms in this set (6)

• election of senators. direct election of senators by popular vote.
• veto power. pres can veto congressional decisions while congress can override veto by 2/3 vote.
• separation of power between branches.
• congress bust declare war.
• judicial review.
• supreme court may interpret laws.

The judicial branch is called the court system. The courts review laws. The courts explain laws. The courts decide if a law goes against the Constitution.

Checks and balances, principle of government under which separate branches are empowered to prevent actions by other branches and are induced to share power.

: a system that allows each branch of a government to amend or veto acts of another branch so as to prevent any one branch from exerting too much power.

The Declaration establishes a government for Maryland based on popular sovereignty. The Democratic platform supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act and popular sovereignty. The popular sovereignty position argued that the voters living there should decide. He was a supporter of popular sovereignty and of nationalism.

enumerated powers in a sentence

1. In the state constitutions, the people did not enumerate powers.
2. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers . . ..
3. Under our Constitution, the Federal Government is one of enumerated powers.
4. Many of these eighteen enumerated powers came from the Articles of Confederation.

To enumerate is defined as to mention things one by one or to make clear the number of things. An example of enumerate is when you list all of an author’s works one by one. For example, an enumerated data type defines a list of all possible values for a variable, and no other value can then be placed into it.

This is the essence of enumerated vs. implied powers: enumerated powers are those things that the Constitution explicitly says Congress can do (in Article I): levy taxes, regulate commerce with other nations, borrow and coin money, establish post offices, raise an army, and declare war, among other things.