AJ 025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Enumerated Powers, United Steelworkers, Case Citation

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Administration of Justice (AJ)
• Course: AJ 025
• Professor: Johnson

Document Summary

The constitution would have to be flexible to deal with unanticipated circumstances so they made it very general. Most of the continuing body of constitutional law deals with judicial interpretation of the meaning of the constitution as applied to specific circumstances. Their challenge was to create a government that was strong enough yet not too strong. The solution was to separate the powers of the government into specific functions that together represented a strong central government but would serve to operate as a system of checks and balances. There are three basic governmental units created by the constitution. The power to make law was vested in a legislature. The power to enforce law was granted to the executive branch. The power to interpret and apply the law was placed in the. By exercising their powers, each of the branches of government keeps the judiciary.