Recently, we've been watching documentaries about American's history and how it came to be the democratic country it is today with the push and pulls of many conflicts in the past hundreds of years. Many famous presidents, important government figures, those soldiers that put their lives on the line for the countries, all those people that brought out their ideas so we could have the freedom that we have. Of course, the government isn't always just about making decisions regarding wars and making manuals about "How to have a choke-hold on your country 101", it's about the people, what their thoughts are, running the economy properly, keeping citizens safe from terrorists, and etc. In order for the government to run properly and make sure that everything is covered, they have a specific branch system to make sure everything is running smoothly. The 3 main ones that will almost immediately come to mind are the legislative branch, executive branch, and the judicial branch, each doing a different job, but also keeping each other in control, a process called checks and balances. The legislative branch is all about enacting laws. It consists of the senate and the house of representatives. The executive branch is enforcing the laws that the legislative branch makes. This branch includes the president, who is the chief executive, executive officials, departments, and agencies. The judicial branch is about interpreting these laws and making use of these laws for the cases that come to the Supreme Court. It's made of the Supreme Court, which deals with more major issues of the country, and the minor courts scattered across the countries, which deals with every other cases. This is where the system of checks and balances come in. This system allows for each of these branch to make sure that one isn't getting out of hand and lowkey trying to plot the takeover of the president and/or the whole government.
The Constitution and the Amendments also play a major role in the operation of the government as well because the Constitution is all about the most basic laws that have been made and is mostly unchangeable, unless absolutely necessary. That's where the Amendments come in. Currently, there are a total of 17 amendments (say the name! seventeen!) that have been made to the Constitution, mainly changing some details that fit better to society today. There are multiple ways of making an Amendment to the Constitution: 1.Proposed by 2/3 vote of each house of Congress 2. Ratified by 3/4 of state legislature 3. Proposed by Congress at the request of 2/3 of the state legislative or 4. Ratified by 3/4 of the state conventions.
To clarify a statement made above, there is currently a total of 27 amendments because 10 amendments are included in the Bill of Rights. Since the Bill of Rights was ratified, 17 more amendments have been included, bringing the total up to 27. My favorite amendment is the Eighteenth because it was the catalyst for many problems in American history. It created the Prohibition by banning the making and selling of alcohol, and was later repealed by the Twenty-first.
ReplyDeleteIn agreement with what was stated above, my favorite amendment out of the total twenty seven we have was the twenty first amendment because it was the repeal of the eighteenth amendment as it caused so many economical issues. This repeal banned the importation and delivery of any intoxicating liquor into any State.
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