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Pros And Cons Of The Judicial Branch

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The United States government, a simple yet advanced system with the goal of keeping the people safe, healthy, and wealthy. It’s a three branch system that equally divides the powers to create, enforce, and interpret laws. The branch with the power to interpret and/or override these laws from action is the Judicial branch. This branch has the power to deem laws unconstitutional. The Judicial branch also has the highest power in the court with it as the Supreme Court. The Judicial branch, just like the other branches, have to provide checks and balances on the other branches. The Judicial branch's check on the Legislative branch is to as stated previously, remove any laws from order if they are deemed unconstitutional. This means that the Supreme Court will review the law, check all aspects of it to the constitution, and from here a law can now go two ways. It can be deemed constitutional and be left alone, or it can be deemed unconstitutional and be overridden. If the latter occurs, the bill can later be revised and run through the bill to law process again to potentially be turned back into a law. Unfortunately, doing this process again usually leads to the bills permanent death. The Judicial branch’s check for the executive branch is to …show more content…

So for even one branch to disappear could bring collateral damage to the government and country. If specifically the Judicial branch disappeared, a multitude of things could and probably would go wrong. For one instance, the checks the Judicial branch provides are extremely important; if a horrible bill somehow succeeded in becoming a law, there's nothing that can be done to remove it. Any court cases that had made it to their state court would be unable to go any further, cases like Brown v. Board of Education which was a highly important case in U.S. history which made the separation of kids based on color in schools

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