They should be able to expect to have representation as well in other governing institutions, like the executive and judicial branches.
Article VI of the Constitution requires that all Senators, Representatives, Members of the State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers of the United States and the States shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support the Constitution.
The number of filibusters shot up in the eighties and continued to rise in the following decades, as the parties kept alternating control of the Senate and escalating a procedural arms race, routinely blocking the confirmation of executive and judicial appointees.
In fact, the legislative, executive and judicial powers are so well respected in Honduras that when President Manuel Zelaya wanted to illegally change the constitution to extend his term in office, these two branches conformed by sympathizers and opponents of Mr. Zelaya, acted independently and in accordance to the law declaring that this move was illegal.
If so, what does that portend for the future of our government with its checks and balances between its Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches?
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It also "enlarges" the division of powers to include not only the traditional division between executive, legislative and judicial powers but it creates also the "Electoral power" and the "Social Control and Transparence Power".
And more broadly speaking, how does he respond to criticisms from liberal organizations that he hasn't put enough muscle behind getting his judicial and executive branch nominees confirmed?
The court rejected Clinton's claims that lawsuits against presidents in office violate the separation of powers between the judicial branch and the executive branch.
Finally, the transnationalists urge that the power of the executive branch should be constrained by judicial review and the concept of international comity, while the nationalists tend to believe that federal courts should give extraordinarily broad deference to executive power in foreign affairs.
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We depend the judicial branches and Congress checking the executive, and the executive checking Congress.
They were also reviewing proposals approved by the executive European Commission on Wednesday that involve harmonising police and judicial action, long considered core areas of national sovereignty.
The judge also said that the law "impermissibly attempts to circumscribe a court's ability to review the necessity of nondisclosure orders, " violating the principle that allows the judicial branch to review laws and executive actions.
The rule of law in nearly all other democracies is based on some degree of separation of the judicial branch of government from the legislative and executive branches.
The winner will have all of the executive powers of the council except those that are quasi-judicial, such as planning and licensing.
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