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Checks & Balances

Checks and balances is the method of dividing power, responsibility, and oversight of the three branches of government known as the legislative, executive and judicial branches. The Daily Dose provides microlearning history documentaries like this one delivered to your inbox daily: https://dailydosenow.com Learn more: https://dailydosenow.com/checks-and-b... Subscribe for daily emails: https://subscribe.dailydosenow.com/ Become a Patron:   / dailydosenow   Follow us on social media: Twitter:   / thedailydose18   Facebook:   / thedailydosenow   Click to subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DailyDoseDo... #Government #ChecksAndBalances #Documentary #History #Biography Today's Daily Dose short history film covers checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution. The filmmaker has included the original voice over script to further assist your understanding: Today on The Daily Dose, Checks and Balances. Building on the ideas of Ancient Greek statesman Polybius, Enlightenment thinkers Baron de Montesquieu, John Locke and 18th century British jurist William Blackstone, the framers of the U.S. Constitution divided both powers and responsibilities of the new federal government amongst three separate branches, known collectively as legislative, executive and judicial branches of governance. “If men were angels,” James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers, “no government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.” Known as checks and balances, the founding fathers injected numerous combinations into the U.S. Constitution, including the president or head of the executive branch who serves as commander-in-chief of all American armed forces, while at the same time, Congress or the legislative branch appropriates all funding for the military, as well as maintaining sole voting power to declare war or ratify peace treaties. Within the legislative branch, each house of Congress checks any possible overreach by the other, requiring both the House of Representatives and the Senate to pass a bill in the same form before it becomes passed into law, and while the president has the power to veto specific pieces of legislation sent to him by the legislative branch, Congress can override the president by a two-thirds majority vote, so long as both houses vote for the same outcome. In an effort to check both the executive and legislative branches from unequal or unilateral power, the judicial branch—made up of the Supreme Court and other federal courts—can declare laws or presidential actions unconstitutional, while Congress, by passing amendments to the Constitution, can effectively overturn the decisions by the judicial branch. The president, in turn, can reshape the conservative or liberal leanings of the judicial branch—particularly the Supreme Court—by appointing judges closest to the president’s political leaning when a chief justice resigns or passes away in while still in office, making the system of checks and balances, one of the most fundamental underpinnings of American democracy. And there you have it, checks and balances, today on The Daily Dose.