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The U.S. Congress, comprised of the House of Representatives and the Senate, passes bills into law. The President recommends or vetoes laws, and the Supreme Court interprets laws.
Added: The question also applies to State Legislatures who do the same thing at the state level.
Legislative
Also known as Congress.
Makes all laws.
Only Congress can declare martial law. Federal executive orders are not constitutional as they are executive, not legislative.
Controls all the money; taxes, borrows, and sets the budget (with exception of inappropriate spending by central bank).
Has sole power to declare war.
Oversees, investigates, and makes the rules for the government and its officers.
Confirms the heads of the executive branch.
Confirms federal judicial appointments, and defines by law the jurisdiction of the judicial branch in cases not specified by the Constitution.
Ratifies treaties.
Originates and tries cases of impeachment
Executive
Also known as the President.
Preserves, protects and defends the Constitution
Faithfully executes the laws of the United States.
Executes the instructions of Congress.
May veto laws (but the veto may be overridden by Congress by a 2/3 majority) or refuse to execute them if s/he deems them unconstitutional.
Executes the spending authorized by Congress.
Executes the instructions of Congress when it declares war or makes rules for the military.
Declares states of emergency and publishes regulations and executive orders.
Creates treaties, and appoints judges and other executive heads, both with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Has the power to grant pardons for crimes against the United States.
Has the power to put flags at half staff.
Is the commander in chief of the armed forces.
Judicial
- Determines which laws Congress intended to apply to any given case
- Determines whether a law is unconstitutional
- Determines how Congress meant the law to apply to disputes
- Determines how a law acts to determine the disposition of prisoners
- Determines how a law acts to compel testimony and the production of evidence
- Polices its own members
- Is never immune to arbitrary dismissal by Congress through impeachment proceedings
When a bill is introduced in a legislature, it is referred to a committee of that house, where the members of that committee and of sub-committees working under it will consider the bill and what action to take on it.
Those with the money to buy the power to do so...
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Who Passes bills they hope will become laws?
Both the Senate and the House
Which branch of Congress passes bills to become laws?
us senate
What laws does the congress make in the US?
The U.S. Congress passes bills that become Federal Laws when the U.S. President signs them (although there are cases in which Congress can make a bill into a law without the President's approval), and each state Congress passes bills that become state laws when the Governor of the state signs them.
Does legislative branch decide if laws are constitution?
The legislative branch comes up with bills(ideas that they hope to become laws) The executive branch approves the bills and the Judicial branch decides if they are constitutional.
What bills might become?
The Answer To This Answer Is "Laws"
Who passes bills into laws?
For Australia it is the Governor General. Her name is Quentin Bryce.
What bills might become unconstitutional?
Laws
Why do legislator is the one who passes and write laws?
Who passes bills to let your mother shake her saggy bags all over my block?
What branch will write bills that become laws?
Comgress
What are the three ways in which bills may become laws?
batty
What happen to most bills that do not become laws?
They die in committee
Who approved bills to become laws?
Once a bill passes both the Senate and House of Representatives, it is sent to the President for his approval. If he veto it, then that bill has to be passed by 2/3 majority of the congress, then it become law without presidential consent.
