<P> Congress is one of the branches of government so it has a lot of powers of its own that it uses to pass laws and establish regulations . These include express, implied, and concurrent powers . It uses its express powers to regulate bankruptcies, business between states and other nations, the armed forces, and the National Guard or militia . They also establish all laws necessary and proper for carrying out other powers . In addition to this Congress makes laws for naturalization . Implied powers are used to keep the regulation of taxes, the draft, immigration, protection of those with disabilities, minimum wage, and outlaw discrimination . Congress's inherent powers are used to control national borders, deal with foreign affairs, acquire new territories, defend the state from revolution, and decide the exclusion or establishment of aliens . Concurrent powers makes it so that both federal and state governments can create laws, deal with environmental protection, maintain national parks and prisons, and provide a police force . </P> <P> The judicial branch of government holds powers as well . They have the ability to use express and concurrent powers to make laws and establish regulations . They use express powers to interpret laws and perform judicial review . Implied powers are used by this branch to declare laws that were previously passed by a lower court unconstitutional . They can also use express powers to declare laws that are in the process of being passed unconstitutional . Concurrent powers are used to make it so that state courts can conduct trials and interpret laws without the approval of federal courts and federal courts can hear appeals form lower state courts . </P> <P> The executive branch also has powers of its own that they use to make laws and establish regulations . The powers that are used in this branch are express, implied, and inherent . The President uses express powers to approve and veto bills and to make treaties as well . The President is constitutionally obligated to make sure that laws are faithfully executed and uses their powers to do just this . He uses implied powers to issue executive orders and enter into treaties with foreign nations . The executive branch uses inherent powers to establish executive privilege, which means that they can enforce statutes and laws already passed by Congress . They can also enforce the Constitution and treaties that were previously made by other branches of government . </P> <P> The system of checks and balances makes it so that no one branch of government has more power than another and cannot overthrow another . It creates a balance of power that is necessary for a government to function, if it is to function well . This, in most situations, makes it so that each branch is held to a certain standard of conduct . If a branch of the government thinks that what another branch is doing is unconstitutional, they can "call them out" so to say . Each branch is able to look at the other branches wrong doing and change it to meet the needs of the people whom they serve . Humans as a whole have a history of abusing positions of power but the system of checks and balances makes it so much more difficult to do so . Also the fact that there is more than one person running each branch gives room for debate and discussion before decisions are made within a single branch . Even so, some laws have been made and then retracted because of the fact that they were an abuse of the power given to that particular branch . The people that created these laws had been serving a selfish agenda when forming these laws instead of looking out for the welfare of those people that they were supposed to be protecting by making certain laws . While this is a horrible scenario, it does happen . That does not mean that it cannot be fixed though . Indeed it can be, by another branch of government stepping up to right the wrongs that had been done . </P>

How does the separation of powers influence the work of congress