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Author: Amie Leavitt Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1538322277 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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The United States government is divided into the executive, legislative, and judicial branches in order to maintain a healthy balance of power, but how is that balance maintained today? This timely book explains the system of checks and balances with historical and contemporary examples, such as President Trump's executive order banning immigration from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. Readers will learn how the judicial branch was able to block portions of this executive order, and other key moments of checks and balances in U.S. history. Photographs bring these important issues into sharp focus, while fact boxes highlight essential information on this highly relevant topic.
Author: Amie Leavitt Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1538322277 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
The United States government is divided into the executive, legislative, and judicial branches in order to maintain a healthy balance of power, but how is that balance maintained today? This timely book explains the system of checks and balances with historical and contemporary examples, such as President Trump's executive order banning immigration from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. Readers will learn how the judicial branch was able to block portions of this executive order, and other key moments of checks and balances in U.S. history. Photographs bring these important issues into sharp focus, while fact boxes highlight essential information on this highly relevant topic.
Author: Kirk A. Randazzo Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438452896 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 218
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Examines and measures the extent to which statutory language affects judicial behavior. How does the language of legislative statutes affect judicial behavior? Scholars of the judiciary have rarely studied this question despite statutes being, theoretically, the primary opportunity for legislatures to ensure that those individuals who interpret the law will follow their preferences. In Checking the Courts, Kirk A. Randazzo and Richard W. Waterman offer a model that integrates ideological and legal factors through an empirical measure of statutory discretion. The model is tested across multiple judicial institutions, at both the federal and state levels, and reveals that judges are influenced by the levels of discretion afforded in the legislative statutes. In those cases where lawmakers have clear policy preferences, legislation encourages judges to strictly interpret the plain meaning of the law. Conversely, if policy preferences are unclear, legislation leaves open the possibility that judges will make decisions based on their own ideological policy preferences. Checking the Courts thus provides us with a better understanding of the dynamic interplay between law and ideology. Kirk A. Randazzo is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina and author of Defenders of Liberty or Champions of Security? Federal Courts, the Hierarchy of Justice, and U.S. Foreign Policy, also published by SUNY Press. Richard W. Waterman is Professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky and the author of several books, including The Changing American Presidency: New Perspectives on Presidential Power.
Author: Kathiann M. Kowalski Publisher: Lerner Digital ™ ISBN: 1512475955 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 40
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! What are checks and balances? They are limits that keep different parts of government from having too much power. But just what are these limits? And how do they help our government run more smoothly? Read this book to find out.
Author: Cassie M. Lawton Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC ISBN: 1502656957 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 34
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The system of checks balances between the branches of the U.S. government is written into the Constitution, but it isn't always clearly understood. How does each branch keep the others from getting too powerful? The answer is waiting for readers to discover in this inside guide to an essential civics concept. Through age-appropriate text, photographs, sidebars, and fact boxes, readers explore the meaning of checks and balances and how the system works. They're also encouraged to discuss ways it's been used in the past and the benefits and disadvantages of checks and balances.
Author: Daniel E. Brannen Publisher: UXL ISBN: 9780787654115 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 292
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This volume focuses on the historic roots, Constitutional role, key positions, and daily operations of the legislative branch of government.
Author: Hal Moroz Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781793992994 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 348
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We no longer have a Constitutional system of checks and balances. Darkness has descended upon the Judiciary, starting in the United States Supreme Court and cascading down to our state courts, affecting even my beloved Georgia Supreme Court, where I have practiced the law with regularity. Our modern Judiciary has strayed from the narrowly defined role given it by the Framers, and has set out on a new progressive course, piloted by activist judges and justices, to divine laws that are anathema to the Constitution. It is a usurpation of the charter established by our Founding Fathers, and an affront to the God-given rights enumerated in our Constitution. In the words of the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia in his 2015 Obergefell dissent, "This is a naked judicial claim to legislative-indeed, super-legislative-power; a claim fundamentally at odds with our system of government...A system of government that makes the People subordinate." We the People must ensure that all who would serve in the Judiciary strictly interpret the Constitution, and not substitute their will for the Law. Our future generations will reap the rewards or suffer the consequences of the choices we now make. Let us decide well, having the knowledge and the wisdom to choose wisely. This is what "The Making of a Supreme Court Justice" is all about.
Author: Clark Neily Publisher: Encounter Books ISBN: 1594036969 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 234
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Government at every level is too big, too powerful, and too intrusive. But don’t blame just legislators and members of the executive branch for constantly overstepping their constitutional bounds. As Clark Neily argues in The Terms of Engagement, judges have more than their fair share of the blame. While liberals seek court rulings creating positive rights to things like free health care and conservatives call for judicial “restraint,” the end result is same: greater government power and diminished individual rights. With compelling real-world examples and penetrating legal analysis, Neily’s book shows how judicial abdication brought us to this point and calls for “judicial engagement” to restore courts as the critical check on the other branches of government envisioned by the Framers. Neily documents how courts have largely abandoned that vital role, and he offers a persuasive solution for the epidemic of judicial abdication: principled judicial engagement whereby judges actually judge in all constitutional cases, rather than reflexively taking the government’s side as they so often do now. Anyone concerned about the size of government, the sanctity of the Constitution, and the rule of law will find a refreshingly new perspective in this book written for non-lawyers and lawyers alike.
Author: Barbara Krasner Publisher: Lerner Publications ™ ISBN: 1541570227 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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This timely introduction to checks and balances explores how the three branches of government work together. Historical context and examples illustrate the vision of our founding fathers for a responsible government.
Author: Jack Reader Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1508164789 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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When the Founding Fathers drew up the Constitution, they envisioned a system of government in which no single person had all the power. In this fact-filled book, readers will learn about the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. Students will learn what each branch does and how they work together to keep our country running through a system of checks and balances. Primary sources enrich the text and bring history to life. Students will enjoy learning about this important early elementary social studies subject.
Author: Amie Leavitt
Author: Amie Leavitt
Author: Kirk A. Randazzo
Author: Kathiann M. Kowalski
Author: B. D. Gray
Author: Cassie M. Lawton
Author: Daniel E. Brannen
Author: Hal Moroz
Author: Clark Neily
Author: Barbara Krasner
Author: Jack Reader