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    Checks and Balances: Assignment 2

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    The document discusses the concept of checks and balances in government. It defines checks and balances as dispersing political power among entities like courts, the president, legislature, and citizens to create accountability. It states government goals are better achieved with checks and balances. Each branch can restrain other branches from overstepping authority. Examples given include the president's veto power over Congress, Congress refusing concurrence on presidential treaties or amnesties, the president's pardon power, Congress' control over court jurisdictions, and courts invalidating unconstitutional acts.

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    The document discusses the concept of checks and balances in government. It defines checks and balances as dispersing political power among entities like courts, the president, legislature, and citizens to create accountability. It states government goals are better achieved with checks and balances. Each branch can restrain other branches from overstepping authority. Examples given include the president's veto power over Congress, Congress refusing concurrence on presidential treaties or amnesties, the president's pardon power, Congress' control over court jurisdictions, and courts invalidating unconstitutional acts.

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    The document discusses the concept of checks and balances in government. It defines checks and balances as dispersing political power among entities like courts, the president, legislature, and citizens to create accountability. It states government goals are better achieved with checks and balances. Each branch can restrain other branches from overstepping authority. Examples given include the president's veto power over Congress, Congress refusing concurrence on presidential treaties or amnesties, the president's pardon power, Congress' control over court jurisdictions, and courts invalidating unconstitutional acts.

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    Checks and Balances: Assignment 2

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    The document discusses the concept of checks and balances in government. It defines checks and balances as dispersing political power among entities like courts, the president, legislature, and citizens to create accountability. It states government goals are better achieved with checks and balances. Each branch can restrain other branches from overstepping authority. Examples given include the president's veto power over Congress, Congress refusing concurrence on presidential treaties or amnesties, the president's pardon power, Congress' control over court jurisdictions, and courts invalidating unconstitutional acts.

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    GERARD ANDREI B.

    DEINLA
    BSBA MARKETING MANAGEMENT 3

    POL GOV W/ PHIL CONST


    MR. GLENN BIASCA

    ASSIGNMENT 2

    CHECKS AND BALANCES


    the doctrine and practice of dispersing political power and creating mutual accountability
    among political entities such as the courts, the president or prime minister, the legislature,
    and the citizens.
    The ends of government are better achieved if the system of checks and balances will be
    observed.
    Under the system of checks and balances, one department is given certain powers by which it
    may definitely restrain the others from exceeding constitutional authority. It may object or
    resist any encroachment upon its authority, or it may question, if necessary any act or acts
    which unlawfully interferes with its sphere of jurisdiction and authority. (Suarez, 2005).
    The following are illustrations where there are checks and balances:
    1. The lawmaking power of the Congress is checked by the President through its veto
    power, which in turn maybe overturn by the legislature
    2. The Congress may refuse to give its concurrence to an amnesty proclaimed by the
    President and the Senate to a treaty he has concluded
    3. The President may nullify a conviction in a criminal case by pardoning the offender
    4. The Congress may limit the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and that of inferior courts
    and even abolish the latter tribunals
    5. The Judiciary in general has the power to declare invalid an act done by the Congress,
    the President and his subordinates, or the Constitutional Commissions.

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