The Fight for Ratification The Fight for Ratification

The Fight for Ratification

The Fight for Ratification

The Fight for Ratification

The Fight for Ratification

Checks and Balances • System in which each branch of government can limit the power of the other two branches. • The Framers accepted Montesquieu’s position that power must be used to balance power. • They believed that separating power into legislative, executive, and judicial branches would provide an indispensable defense against tyranny.

Checks and Balances

Separations of Powers Provisions in the US Constitution • Article I, Section. 1: All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. • Article II, Section. 1: The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. • Article III, Section. 1: The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.

Separations of Powers Legislative Branch

Separations of Powers Executive Branch

Separations of Powers Judicial Branch

Separation of Powers Examples

Separation of Powers Examples

Separation of Powers Examples

Separation of Powers Consequences

Limitations on Majority Rule

Limitations on Majority Rule

Limitations on Majority Rule

Constitutional Change

Constitutional Change

Constitutional Change

Constitutional Change

Constitutional Change

Constitutional Change