What are the three branches of Government?

1. What are the three branches of Government? Why are these important?

2. The Three Branches • Executive • The president and his cabinet • Legislative • Those who make the laws • Judicial • Those who make sure that laws are upheld • Also determine if a law is unconstitutional

3. Executive Branch

4. Executive Continued

5. Executive Continued • The President can approve the budget for the nation once the legislative branch proposes it. • The Constitution gives the vice president the role of presiding over the Senate and voting in the Senate if there is a tie. The vice president's only other formal responsibility is taking over the presidency if the president dies.

6. Executive Continued A cabinet is a body of high-ranking state officials, typically consisting of the top leaders of the executive branch The Cabinet’s role is to advise the President on any subject he may require relating to the duties of each member’s respective office. Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Andrew Wheeler Attorney General William Barr Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Gina Haspel Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue Secretary of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper Secretary of Education Elisabeth Prince DeVos Secretary of Energy James Richard Perry Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Benjamin S. Carson, Sr. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer Vice President Michael R. Pence Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney

7. The Legislative branch • Two parts: • House of Representatives • 25 years old • Living in US for 7 consecutive years/US citizen • Number of representatives varies by state; determined by population of state • 2 year job • Senate • 30 years old • Living in US for 9 consecutive years/US citizen • 2 per state: total 100 Senators at all times • 6 year job

8. Legislature Duties • Create and vote laws into practice • Senate house: tries all impeachments • Have to all assemble once a year on 1st Monday in December • To name and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States • borrow Money

9. Legislative continued • Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations • coin Money and regulate the value • provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting • establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization • establish Post Offices and post Roads • declare War • raise and support Armies, provide and maintain a Navy, create rules for regulation of both

10. Legislative continued • Of the three branches of government, Congress is the only one elected directly by the people. • The house and senate propose new budgets, but the President must approve that budget • Article 1, Section VIII of the Constitution specifically gives Congress the power to levy(raise or lower) taxes. Similarly, they also have the power to set the federal budget.

11. Judicial Branch • Supreme Court • 9 justices at all times • Appointed by President ONLY! • Appointed for life! • Can declare the Punishment of Treason • Cases seen here are either cases against the United States Government, or they are cases that have been heard in a state’s Supreme Court

12. Judicial Branch • The Federal Courts try issues dealing with violations of Federal law. They also take appeals from state courts. There are four basic branches of the Federal Judiciary: U.S. Bankruptcy Court • U.S. District Court • U.S. Courts of Appeal • U.S. Supreme Court.