Congress vs. President

The Supreme Court is the highest court in the United States and Congress is the only branch that can propose bills and pass them into laws. And lastly the president whose job is to enforce the nation's laws. The point of having three branchese of government is for one branch of government to check the other. I think all the branches of the government are important, but the problem is tht due to the media's power to control the people's minds, it also give more power to the president than it should be in a correct checks and balances system. Checks and balance is a system established in the Constitution that prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful.

The war in Iraq was a bad choice for the United States of America. President Bush in 2000 declared war in Iraq without Congress's approval, which is directly defying the system of checks and balances. Which in the Constitution states in Article I, section 7, the Congress shall have the power to declare war, grant letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water. The declaration of war as written in the Constitution seems to create a war-making partnership with the two branches of government, to restrict the president's Article II power as Commander-in-Chief, and instead significantly grant that power to the Legislative Branch. But because of the influence of media on the American people Bush was able to convince the country that America needed to go to war now and did not have any time to waste, so because the people supported his cause he was able to send 20, 000 troops. However Congress does not have the power to order the president to remove troops from battle. Instead of asking Congress to declare war after he sent the troops he merely asked for their support, which Congress could not turn down because they knew it would be political suicide. I mean it would sound bad in the media if the story was, "Congress will not support the War on Terror, it would rather the United States be blown up than find the 'weapons of mass destruction'."

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http://www.americanprogressaction.org/cartoons/2007/09/img/092007_executive.jpg