Question

In your opinion, which of the three branches of the federal government has the most power? Defend your answer.

Answer 1

The Executive Branch is the most strong by practice. The Executive Branch relies on a certain level of humanity, respect and ethics to remain within the sphere of balance. However, simply by choice, the Executive Branch may simply decide not to enforce its own laws laid down by the Courts or any decisions of the Congress. Also constitutionally, the Executive Branch can impose executive orders and vetoes at an unpresented rate. Because of the federated existence of the States, the Supreme Court does not really seem to be as strong in this sense.

System wise, the Courts have the most legislative authority, since a relatively limited jury of people is responsible for enforcing the law. All that takes is some clever use of vocabulary, and you can pretty much make any legislation mean anything, legally speaking. Such a small group may easily be divided in points of view, creating a huge bias, quite quickly. That is why most people often state that the Courts are the strongest.

Similarly, in applying the law, the executive branch has the right to apply the law in a strict or less strict sense. This has to do with the spirit of the law and the letter of the law. Here, too, the US is atypical because the letter of the law is above the spirit of the law. The fact that the US follows the letter of the law above the spirit of its law has, in my view, to do with its past in which people of various cultures have developed a new country. In this process, the discussion of rationality is too vague to work in practice because it depends on learning / cultural understanding of what is reasonable.