Branches: Checks and Balances

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după Christi MacDonald

după Bernard Newbold

după Patrick Curry

după JEFFERSON JOEL HINOJOSA SANCHEZ

Executive:

Must be 35 to run and born a citizen. also must have lived her for 7 years, and lived in a state for 7 years.

Elected every 4 years, and is allowed to serve 10 years. and two terms

Vice pres only person allowed to be in 2 branches at once.

President bomb country or place for thirty days, but if wants to declare war, must go to legislature.

Legislative:

2 Senators per state: 100

vice pres. is president of the senate. he's only there to break ties with bills.

Senators run every even year, in groups of 33, 34, and so on. 1/3 runs at a time so that 2/3 is always old

represenatives based on population: 435 reps.

Electoral college has 538 voters, and you must have 270 to be ellected.

Judicial:

Can declare legislative bills unconstitutional.

Can declare Executive's acts unconstituional.

First black man on court: Thurgood Marshall

First woman on court: Sandra Day O'Conner