7: Checks and Balances

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Legislative Branch Checks on Executive Branch

  • May over-ride a presidents veto w/ 2/3 vote of house and senate

  • may impeach president

  • approves judges

  • approves treaties

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Legislative Branch Checks on Judicial Branch

  • may impeach federal judges

  • creates lower courts

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Executive Branch Checks on Legislative Branch

  • president can veto bill/law/legislation

  • may call special sessions of congress

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Executive Branch Checks on Judicial Branch

  • Appoints supreme court justices

  • appoints other federal judges

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Judicial Branch Checks on Legislative Branch

  • may declare acts on congress unconstitutional

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Judicial Branch Checks on Executive Branch

  • may declare executive acts unconstitutional

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