1. Objectives 3.6 and 3.7
Checks and Balances

2. Checks and Balances: how legislative limits the executive and judicial
Objectives 3.6
Checks and Balances: how legislative limits the executive and judicial

3. Legislative over Executive
Ratify (approve or reject) treaties
(only the Senate does this)

4. Legislative over Executive
Approve or reject appointments
made by the President
(federal judges, ambassadors, cabinet leaders)
(only the Senate does this)

5. Legislative over Executive
Override a veto
it takes 2/3 of BOTH
houses of Congress
100 x 2/3 = 67 (instead of 51)
435 x 2/3 = 288 (instead of 218)

6. Legislative over Executive
Appropriate money
the President creates the “budget”…which is a list of money need to run the country
(bill begins in the House)

7. Legislative over Executive
Impeach and remove the President or Vice President
(IMPEACHMENT by the House)
(TRIAL & REMOVAL by the Senate)

8. Legislative over Judicial
Impeach and remove a federal judge
(IMPEACHMENT by the House)
(TRIAL & REMOVAL by the Senate)

9. Legislative over Judicial
Begin amendments to override a judicial decision
(Amendments are created and voted on by the House and Senate)
(Amendments are ratified by the states)

10. Checks and Balances: how the executive and judicial limits legislative
Objectives 3.7
Checks and Balances: how the executive and judicial limits legislative

11. Executive over Legislative
President vetoes legislation
(there are two ways to do this)

12. Executive over Legislative
President calls Congress into special session

13. Judicial over Legislative
Supreme Court may declare laws unconstitutional

14. Judicial over Legislative
Federal Courts may interpret laws
(decide what the wording of the law means)