When Congress passes laws, they go through a period of judicial review where the Supreme Court can declare the law as unconstitutional and have it not pass. The Supreme Court can also declared executive orders unconstitutional as well.
Yes, the power to check other government branches is a non-legislative power
The United States government has three branches because the Founding Fathers believed the branches would check and balance each other.
to check the other branches and to pass laws.
They can do things that limits the two other branches' powers. For example, if a President vetoes a bill, Congress can override it if they gets a 2/3 vote.
Checks and Balances means that no one branch of the government can overpower the other branches of government. Each has a check on the power of the other branches. This provides for the necessity of cooperation among the three branches and allows the government to enact favorable legislation.
The purpose was to keep the other two branches in check. This way all branches have the same amount of power and cant take over the U.S.
hit them down
so if two of the other government branches thought the other was too powerful they could check the issue then balance the branches
The Founding Fathers wanted to guard against tyranny, so the government was divided into the branches. It was believed that each branch would "check" the other branches so that no one branch became too powerful.
Because if not is will be not fair rule or law
So that no one branch of the government has total control
judicial, legislative, executive