<Table> <Tr> <Td> <Dl> <Dt> Legislative </Dt> </Dl> <Ul> <Li> Writes and enacts laws </Li> <Li> Enacts taxes, authorizes borrowing, and sets the budget </Li> <Li> Has sole power to declare war </Li> <Li> May start investigations, especially against the executive branch </Li> <Li> The Senate considers presidential appointments of judges and executive department heads </Li> <Li> The Senate ratifies treaties </Li> <Li> The House of Representatives may impeach, and the Senate may remove, executive and judicial officers </Li> <Li> Creates federal courts except for the Supreme Court, and sets the number of justices on the Supreme Court </Li> <Li> May override presidential vetoes </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> <Dl> <Dt> Executive </Dt> </Dl> <Ul> <Li> May veto laws </Li> <Li> Vice president presides over the Senate </Li> <Li> Wages war at the direction of Congress (Congress makes the rules for the military) </Li> <Li> Makes decrees or declarations (for example, declaring a state of emergency) and promulgates lawful regulations and executive orders </Li> <Li> Influences other branches of its agenda with the State of the Union address . </Li> <Li> Appoints judges and executive department heads </Li> <Li> Has power to grant pardons to convicted persons, except in cases of impeachment </Li> <Li> Executes and enforces orders of the court through federal law enforcement . </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> <Dl> <Dt> Judicial </Dt> </Dl> <Ul> <Li> Determines which laws Congress intended to apply to any given case </Li> <Li> Determines whether a law is unconstitutional . (The power of judicial review is not expressly granted in the Constitution, but was held by the judiciary to be implicit in the constitutional structure in Marbury v. Madison (1803).) </Li> <Li> Determines how Congress meant the law to apply to disputes </Li> <Li> Determines how a law acts to determine the disposition of prisoners </Li> <Li> Determines how a law acts to compel testimony and the production of evidence </Li> <Li> Determines how laws should be interpreted to assure uniform policies in a top - down fashion via the appeals process, but gives discretion in individual cases to low - level judges . (The amount of discretion depends upon the standard of review, determined by the type of case in question .) </Li> <Li> Polices its own members </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> <Dl> <Dt> Legislative </Dt> </Dl> <Ul> <Li> Writes and enacts laws </Li> <Li> Enacts taxes, authorizes borrowing, and sets the budget </Li> <Li> Has sole power to declare war </Li> <Li> May start investigations, especially against the executive branch </Li> <Li> The Senate considers presidential appointments of judges and executive department heads </Li> <Li> The Senate ratifies treaties </Li> <Li> The House of Representatives may impeach, and the Senate may remove, executive and judicial officers </Li> <Li> Creates federal courts except for the Supreme Court, and sets the number of justices on the Supreme Court </Li> <Li> May override presidential vetoes </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> <Dl> <Dt> Executive </Dt> </Dl> <Ul> <Li> May veto laws </Li> <Li> Vice president presides over the Senate </Li> <Li> Wages war at the direction of Congress (Congress makes the rules for the military) </Li> <Li> Makes decrees or declarations (for example, declaring a state of emergency) and promulgates lawful regulations and executive orders </Li> <Li> Influences other branches of its agenda with the State of the Union address . </Li> <Li> Appoints judges and executive department heads </Li> <Li> Has power to grant pardons to convicted persons, except in cases of impeachment </Li> <Li> Executes and enforces orders of the court through federal law enforcement . </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> <Dl> <Dt> Judicial </Dt> </Dl> <Ul> <Li> Determines which laws Congress intended to apply to any given case </Li> <Li> Determines whether a law is unconstitutional . (The power of judicial review is not expressly granted in the Constitution, but was held by the judiciary to be implicit in the constitutional structure in Marbury v. Madison (1803).) </Li> <Li> Determines how Congress meant the law to apply to disputes </Li> <Li> Determines how a law acts to determine the disposition of prisoners </Li> <Li> Determines how a law acts to compel testimony and the production of evidence </Li> <Li> Determines how laws should be interpreted to assure uniform policies in a top - down fashion via the appeals process, but gives discretion in individual cases to low - level judges . (The amount of discretion depends upon the standard of review, determined by the type of case in question .) </Li> <Li> Polices its own members </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Dl> <Dt> Legislative </Dt> </Dl> <Ul> <Li> Writes and enacts laws </Li> <Li> Enacts taxes, authorizes borrowing, and sets the budget </Li> <Li> Has sole power to declare war </Li> <Li> May start investigations, especially against the executive branch </Li> <Li> The Senate considers presidential appointments of judges and executive department heads </Li> <Li> The Senate ratifies treaties </Li> <Li> The House of Representatives may impeach, and the Senate may remove, executive and judicial officers </Li> <Li> Creates federal courts except for the Supreme Court, and sets the number of justices on the Supreme Court </Li> <Li> May override presidential vetoes </Li> </Ul>

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