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Political Science

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE US PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS (2006

INTRODUCTION

The United States democracy is one that is popular among democratic States . In fact , many democratic nations have modeled their democracy after what is obtainable in the prototype of the US democracy . And standards of some countries democracies are measured against what is obtainable in US democracy . The United States democracies uphold the respect for fundamental human rights and tends to protect human liberty and freedom through its constitutional declarations . To safeguard human freedom and the respect for human rights it

then mean that those elected into the state helm of affair operates within the limitation of their power by the constitution . Thus , the term constitutionalism expresses how public officers are limited in their operations within the dictates of the constitution . The United States constitution advocates for the separation of power of the three arms of government

The US democracy is based on the principle of separation of power proposed by Charles Montesquieu . Charles Montesquieu in his proposition argues liberty can only be guaranteed in any political system if the powers of government are separated and allocated to different institutions . According to him if executive , legislative and judicial powers are vested in the same person or institution , there will soon be an end to liberty and absolutism is bound to emerge for power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely (Hazard , 1954 , citied in Akhakpe 1999 : 32

The founding fathers of the US democracy have greatly bought the political thought of Charles Montesquieu . Hence , the US constitution is structured around the principle of separation of power . The principle of separation of power then tends to encourage checks and balances , as a way of preventing Is the US contemporary political democracy upholding this principle of separation of power of its letter ? What is the relationship between the Executive and the Legislative arms of government are contemporary times These and other related questions would be addressed in this write up

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE US PRESIDENT AND THE CONGRESS

In US democracy the constitution allocates and upheld the separation of power . Thus , the executive is separated from the legislature , and where they conflict , in the course of their constitutional interactions , the judiciary arbitrates . The US President is the Head of the Administration . As the head of political executive heirads great influence in policy formulation and its implementation . The Congress has the function of making laws , by approving bills passed to it by the Executive . In the case of ministerial appointment by the President , the congress need to clarify those appointed before they take up their portfolio . In the passing out of national budgets by the President , the congress needs to authorize the budgets before they are implemented Thus , it is seen that there is checks and balances in the relationship between the US President and the Congress

The separation of power of the US democracy makes the congress to operate freely with less influence from the President . Unlike the Parliamentary system of...

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