Question

Explain the basic organization of the federal government and the underlying principles behind why the founders created this form of government. Your response should be at least 150 words.

Answer 1

The federal government is composed of three distinct branches: legislative, executive, and judicial, whose powers are vested by the U.S. Constitution in the Congress, the President, and the federal courts, respectively. Is it what you need? I doubt I can help with the other question of yours. You may check it also at Prime Writings site. They have the extended database with the articles about your topic. Hope, I helped.

Answer 2

The U.S. government is mainly organized under two principles: the Separation of Powers and the System of Checks and Balances. Under the principle of the Separation of Powers, the power of the government is divided into three branches: the Legislative, consisting of a bicameral Congress that make laws, the Judicial, consisting of a Supreme Court whose main responsibility is to evaluate laws and has the power of Judicial Review, and the Executive whose power is vested in the President and its function is to enforce laws.

Likewise, under the system of Checks and Balance, each branch has the power to oversees, limit and respond to the action of the other. For example, under this system, the Legislative passes bills, however, these bills can not become laws right away: they first have to be approved by the President; simultaneously, the Judicial branch has the power to determine if a law or an act of Congress or of the President is unconstitutional.

The Founding Fathers created this form of government to prevent tyranny and to have a balance in government. With this model, the power is not held by only one institution but by three branchers that have the power to place limits in the others, and this helps prevent abuses of authority.