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The Legislative Branch has the power:
- of impeachment
- to override presidential vetoes
- to reject presidential appointments
- to reject treaties
- to withhold funding for initiatives
The three branches are based on a separation of power controlled by a system of checks and balances. Congress can pass a bill vetoed by the President if they have a 2/3's majority and they appoint members of the Executive Branch. The Legislative Branch also ratify treaties, impeach, make laws, investigate, declare war and control all the money.
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ViviThey can:
Veto Legislation
Call Congress into special session
Implement (or fail to implement) laws passed by Congress
Appoint judges, justices and cabinet members
The president can veto bills that congress creates.
In order to balance that, congress can override a veto.
In order to keep a balance on both of these, the Supreme Court can declare any law unconstitutional.
The president also appoints the Supreme Court Justices, but congress has to approve of these appointments. So there is another round of checks and balances.
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How can the executive branch check the power the legislative branch?
Veto
How does the legislative check the executive branch?
Through the veto power.
How does the excutive branch check the legislative branch?
The President has the power to veto or deny Congress's bill's passing.
Who check the executive branch?
Both the Judicial and Legislative branch can check the Executive branch. The Judicial branch has the power of judicial review and can declare any act of the Executive branch to be unconstitutional and therefore void. The Legislative branch has a number of checks on the Exectuive branch. The President, the head of the Executive Branch, can appoint federal judges but the Senate must approve.
What are the executive branchs checkes over the legislative and the judicial branches?
The executive check over the legislative branch is the power of vetoing laws. The executive check over the judicial branch is the power of judicial appointment -- the president can pick a judge to take the seat of a judge who leaves the supreme court.
