The power of the federal government is divided into three branches. Article 1 of the constitution is legislative branch and it has the power to make laws, set taxes, declare war, override vetoes, borrow money, print money, and regulate international and national trade. Legislative branch is made up of the senate and the house of representative. Next Article of the constitution is the Executive Branch, in another word the president of the United Stat of America. Executive Branch power consist of ensuring the law are executed, make treaties, grand pardon, appointing federal officers and the president is also commander- in- chief. Finally article 3 is the Judicial Branch and its job is to decide cases of constitutional law and federal law, cases involving ambassadors go straight to Supreme Court, and it also has the power to Judicially Review the constitution. This three branches of the government create the government to server people. It allows the power to be separated equally, where no branch of the government had more power then another. In order to pass a law or a three branch of government must come together, therefore no branch can work on its own. Furthermore not only they can’t work alone, each branch of government won’t be able to function without another. This trio check and balance itself; president can veto the bill, legislature can interpret the law and judiciary can approve. …show more content…
In the 1987 case of South Dakota v. Dole, for example, the Supreme Court noted that "the level of deference to the congressional decision is such that the Court has more recently questioned whether ‘general welfare ' is a judicially enforceable restriction at all." Instead, the courts have focused not on the constitutionality of spending programs themselves, but on whether various conditions imposed on the receipt of federal funds—conditions designed to achieve ends concededly not within Congress 's enumerated powers—were constitutionally