Date: November 5, 2015 Topic: Checks and Balances Aim: How does the system of checks and balances provide a stable government? Do now: commerce clause from yesterday.

compromise 3 – The commerce compromise Northerners wanted a government that could regulate trade (taxes to protect them from foreign competition). Southerners, however, feared that the importing of African slaves would be prohibited and that their agricultural exports would be taxed. The delegates agreed that no export duties (the south relied on trade) could be passed by Congress and that Congress could not prohibit the slave trade for 20 years. How do differences over commerce (economy, business) reflect sectionalism in the United States?

OH, HELLO! DO YOU LIKE MY WAVY HAIR? BARON DE MONTESQUIEU OH, HELLO! DO YOU LIKE MY WAVY HAIR? When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. Again, there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control, for the judge would then be the legislator. Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with all the violence of an oppressor.

CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 1 CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 3 THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 1 CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 2 CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 3

JAMES MADISON Ambition must be made to counteract ambition The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny

Date: November 6, 2015 Topic: Checks and Balances Aim: How does the system of checks and balances provide a stable government? Do now: Complete the handout.

ACCORDING TO THE CHART, WHAT ARE THE PRIMARY FUNCTIONS OF THE LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND JUDICIAL BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT?

Checks and balances The system of checks and balances gives each branch of the national government ways to check, or control, the other branches. This prevents too much power from falling into the hands of any one part of government. CHECKS AND BALANCES HOW DO CHECKS AND BALANCES REPRESENT A RESPONSE TO COLONIAL EXPERIENCES UNDER GREAT BRITAIN?

I’M THE PRESIDENT AND I CAN VETO YOUR BILL.

OH YEAH! I’M THE CONGRESS AND I CAN OVERRIDE YOUR VETO!

I’M THE PRESIDENT AND I’M SIGNING THIS BILL INTO LAW.

OH REALLY, WELL I’M THE SUPREME COURT AND I’M TELLING YOU THAT THIS LAW IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

COMPLETE THE QUESTIONS ON THE ATTACHED HANDOUT.

Handout

Which Branch is being checked? Power Who has the power? Which Branch is being checked?  1) Create and pass legislation.  2) Veto bills.  3) Ratify treaties.  4) Appoint Federal judges.  5) Impeachment of federal  officials. 6) Confirm the appointment  of presidential appointments. 7) Declare laws unconstitutional.  8) Override Presidential Vetoes.  9) Judges are appointed for life.  10) Controls appropriations of  money.