Our system of government was set up to have three branches
of government, and so no branch would have more power than the other two, the framers of
the Constitution set up a system of checks and balances. Under this system, each branch
has the ability to stop the other two branches from gaining too much power. For example,
one way the executive branch (the president) is able to stop the legislative branch
(Congress) is through the presidential veto. The president can veto any bill that has
been passed by Congress and stop that bill from becoming law. The judicial branch
(Supreme Court/court system) has the ability to check the president and Congress through
judicial review. With this power, the Supreme Court can declare a law that has been
passed by Congress and signed by the president unconstitutional. Congress has checks on
the Supreme Court and the president as well. To answer your question then, no one branch
of our government is more powerful than the other, so the executive branch isn't the
most powerful branch of government.
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