How Did The Constitution Balance The Power Of The Federal Power

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The founders of the Constitution change the Articles and made the government have more federal powers and weakened the state powers. The Constitution are documents that protect and support the people and also balance the power of the government, which included The Bill of Rights and The Preamble. The documents state in order to maintain and balance the power of the government, it divides the power into three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. After looking at the documents, Constitutionally speaking, the legislative branch, or the Congress, has the most power compared to the other two branches because they make the laws, they can impeach executive leaders, and they have the power to represent the people. The legislative branch makes laws for the country, they can even add or change the Constitution. Article 1, section 7 of the Constitution says that “Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States.” In this case, it means that the legislative …show more content…

In Article 1, section 8, it says that the “Congress also is in charge of creating money, maintaining the military, declaring war on other countries, and [commerce clause:] regulating commerce between states and with other countries.” All of the lists that Congress can do can make impacts of people around the country. Why? Because it is about the economy and the wealth of the country. The lists can not be handled as a one man job, it needs to be handled by a group and vote for the results. That group, of course, is the Congress. Neither the executive nor judicial can do this because they are not assigned to handle the country’s economy and wealth. The President can suggest ideas of what they should do, but he doesn’t cast a vote in the Congress. The Congress handles the economy and wealth of the country and each result can impact the