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The Judicial Branch hears cases regarding laws of the nation, and weighs them with respect to the Constitution and unwritten precedents. So, in a way, both, but it is easiest to picture the Constitution as the ruler to which the courts measure laws to determine their constitutionality.
The executive branch of the government was created in Article II of the United States Constitution. The executive branch consists of the President, the Vice President, and other officials appointed by the president.
Jefferson was against the idea of judicial review...search "jefferson, judicial review," something might come up. I think Alexander Hamilton or James Madison wrote about the dangers of judicial power in the Federalist papers too, you might want to check that out. Actually, Hamilton, writing in the Federalist Papers expressed confidance that the Judicial Branch would be the weakest because it has neither the power of the sword nor the power of the purse. However, he did warn that liberty would be threatened if either of the powerful branches united with the Judicial. See Federalist Paper # 78. The later has not happened, but in some ways, because of the lack of committment to their oaths to uphold the Constitution, and willingness to let the Judicial Branch take all the heat for doing so, it seems as if the Judicial Branch has become the strongest. The truth is, however, that the people still have the power to make those weak members do their jobs. The threat to fire is a powerful, if under-used tool in our hands (Prof. Jeffrey.)
To find information about Iowa courts online you would need to go to their website Iowa Judicial Branch. Here you will find tools to look at online court records, pay fines, and more.
The Constitutional doctrine of separation of powersbetween the three branches--the executive, the legislative and the judicial--has evolved to preserve the coequality of the branches between the three, as envisaged in the U.S. Constitution. Essentially, the judicial branch interprets the laws, the legislative branches formulates the laws, and the executive branch executes and enforces the laws.The doctrine of checks and balances embodies the Constitutional powers of one branch to "check" or offset as to the others in some systemic way, the powers of the other two branches, while separation of powers otherwise serves to "balance" the coequality of the three branches.An example of a check accruing to the executive branch is the Presidential veto or the administrative rulemaking role of the executive branch. An example of a check accruing to the legislative branch is where a Presidential Executive Order must find its basis in Acts of Congress in order to be valid or the power to impeach and remove from office a President for misconduct constituted by "high crimes and misdemeanors". An example of a check accruing to the judicial branch is its power of judicial review to negate legislation that it deems unconstitutional, and the lifetime appointment, subject only to the legislative branch powers of impeachment and removal from office for misconduct, of federal judges.
The judicial branch doesn't check the presidents power to veto specifically. The legislative can however find the actions of the president unconstitutional through judicial review. The presidents power to veto is checked by the legislative, as congress can override the veto by a 2/3 majority.
The principle of judicial review.