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The U.S. Government is divided into levels, and each level is divided into branches. The levels interact with one another, and the branches at each level also interact.
According to the United States Constitution, the US government is divided into three federal branches under the system of checks and balances. These branches are the executive branch or the President of the US with its cabinet members; the legislative branch that is the Congress divided in the upper chamber or Senate, and the lower chamber or House of Representatives; and the judicial branch that is the Supre Court.
The checks and balances system allows equilibrium between the three branches. No one is more powerful than the other.
Then we have the state governments and the local governments.
Answer:
- A power that both state governments and federal governments have is taxation.
- At the federal level, there are checks and balances in place between branches.
- The state governments, like the federal government, are divided into three branches.
Explanation:
- Of the five statements, three are correct and two are incorrect.
- "The state government can use checks and balances on the federal government" is incorrect. The whole point of checks and balances is for differing branches to use their specifically superior abilities to keep the others in line. However, this power is naturally limited to fellow branches within the same government affected one another. If governments could use checks and balances on each other, there would definitely be disastrous chaos.
- "A power that both state governments and federal government have is taxation" is correct. Both governments mentioned tax people in order to pay thier bills. The federal government's taxes are collected to pay for their bills, whilst state governments' taxation is collected to pay for that individual states' bills.
- "At the federal level, there are checks and balances in place between branches" is correct. As stated in the first bullet point, each government is responsible for keeping themself in line, and the branches involved in a government use their higher-ranked powers on one another in order to prevent one branch from gathering too much power.
- "The state governments, like the federal government, are divided into three branches" is correct. The idea behind separate branches and checks and balances is to prevent one government and/or branch from obtaining too much power, thereby preventing something akin to a dictatorship. Both the federal government and state governments are divided into the following three branches: legislative (makes laws), executive (enforces laws), and judicial (evaluates laws). However, the contents of these branches differ from one another. For example, while the federal government's executive branch contains the President, Vice President, and Cabinet, a state government follows the format of Governor, Executive Officers, and Agencies.
- "The legislative, judicial, and executive branches can all make laws at the state level" is incorrect. Regardless of whether they are referring to the federal or state governments, this statement goes against the main function of each branch. Even though the legislative branch is in charge of making laws, the executive and judicial branches play no part in the creation of those legislations. The executive branch enforces laws; the judicial branch evaluates laws. Since only the legislative branches make laws, this statement is clearly false.
