So, last Friday in Social Studies we were discussing the Checks and Balances of the U.S. government, and I couldn't help thinking that the legislative branch is over powered. For those of you who have forgotton, here's a basic overview of the Checks and Balances: So this is how I believe that Congress could gain complete control over the U.S. government: First, they begin passing opressing laws. Both the executive branch and the Judicial Branch would intervene, but would be handled by congress impeaching the president, and then forcing the vice president to appoint all new members of the judicial branch that would believe in their cause. Now, from this point, the only thing that the new president could do would be to call in the armed forces. But when he would try to do so, the Judicial branch would deem it unconstitutional, and the legislative branch would impeach him, putting the Speaker of the House, (someone from their side), into office. Now I believe that the only reason this hasn't happened is because it would cause an uprising of the people against the government, obliterating the hopes of the evil Legislative Branch. This could be avoided in the future if people become too dumb to know about anything that is going on. This is yet another reason to continue to ensure the intelligence of the general poulation.
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Nick
10/15/2012 07:10:40 am
You have to have a pretty good reason to impeach the president. Also the pres can't fire the judges of the supreme court. Oh third and finally, you can't force the pres to do anything. Sorry i just blew holes in your ideas.
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Maura
10/16/2012 07:24:09 am
I agree that it wouldn't happen but technically you didn't blow holes in his idea because if the whole Legislative branch really was trying to take over, well, Senate is the jury in an impeachment case so if they wanted to impeach judges and the pres they would.
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Maura
10/15/2012 11:43:48 am
I also thought of this, because it seems like the Legislative branch has checks on the other two branches and then on top of that has checks on their checks on the Legislative branch, for example: the executive branch has the check of vetoing laws, but Legislative's check on executive is that they can OVERRIDE a veto. Also, the judicial branch can declare laws unconstitutional but legislative can impeach them. Your scenario would never happen though because first there would have to be 535 power hungry, insane people in Congress, and THAT would never happen because the people elect their representatives. I get your thought, but pretty much NO.
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Conor
10/16/2012 11:42:27 pm
You can't get 10 people to agree on something like this, much less Like 400
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DLP
10/18/2012 12:32:40 am
I think it's great that you are even having this discussion!
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