Checks and BalancesIn the United States Constitution, there is a specific system designed to prevent any of the three branches from gaining control or much power. This system is known as Checks and Balances. The system has been implemented several times throughout the history of the year. The designed system of checks and balances is very open but complex. For example, if the executive president fails to fulfill his responsibilities as a leader or behaves inappropriately, Congress's legislative branch can restrain him through the power of impeachment. The judiciary can limit its power through a process of judicial review. This is when a judge can declare a law unconstitutional. Congress can propose a bill to the president if it believes it is not in the best interest of the nation. These are fundamental to government under which different branches are empowered to prevent the actions of other branches and are formed to share power. The executive, legislature and judiciary are the backbone of government to discharge its duty and fulfill its obligations in the interest of the nation. The process of appointing the power that falls to the president is a matter of appointment policy. The nomination policy follows the process by which the person officially appointed by the president is received by the Senate. The presiding officer then sends them for nomination to the relevant committee where the committee presides over the scheduled hearing. For the nomination to move to the second level, the majority members of the committee must then report that nomination to the floor. At this point, it depends on the senatorial majority present to vote for confirmation, after which the nominee will wait for the signed commission...... middle of paper ...... the government, or cabinet, can normally dissolve. the parliament. In single-party political systems, informal checks and balances may operate as organs of an authoritarian or totalitarian regime compete for power. Works Cited • Henry J. Abraham, Justices and Presidents: A Political History of Appointments to the Supreme Court (New York: Oxford University). Press, 1992).• Henry J. Abraham, Justices, Presidents, and Senators: A History of the US Supreme Court Nominations from Washington to Clinton (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999).• Louis Fisher, Constitutional Conflicts between The Congress and the President (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985).• Joseph Harris, The Advice and Consent of the Senate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953).• G. Calvin MacKenzie, The Politics of Presidential Appointments ( New York: Free Press, 1981)