1.) Executive branch, Powers: approves or vetoes federal bills, carries out federal laws, appoints judges, makes foreign treaties, commander-in-chief of armed forces.
Legislative branch, Powers: Passes federal laws, establishes lower federal courts and the number of federal judges, can override the president’s veto with two-thirds vote.
Judicial Branch, Powers: interprets and applies the law by trying federal cases, can declare laws passed by congress and executive actions unconstitutional.
2.) Executive: Congress can override vetoes by two-thirds vote, senate can refuse to confirm appointments or ratify treaties, congress can impeach and remove president, congress can declare war, and Supreme court can declare executive acts unconstitutional.
Legislative: Presidential veto of federal bills, Supreme court can rule laws unconstitutional, both houses of congress must vote to pass laws checking power with legislature.
Judicial: congress can propose constitutional amendments to overturn judicial decisions, congress can impeach and remove federal judges, president appoints judges.
#3 Two house legislature,Three-fifths compromise – a slave counted as three-fifths of a person, Slave trade – they band the slave trade and the northerners agreed that they the congress could not interfere with the southern slave trade until 1808 George Mason proposed the bill of rights to be included in the constitution.
#4 James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay
#5 Protection of individuals’ rights, people were worried the government would get to much power and their rights would be taken away.
#6 Their worry was that their new constitution would take away the liberties Americans had fought to win from Great Britain. The constitution would create a strong central government and would ignore states and favor the wealthy.
