Supreme Court and President

Supreme Court and President

The core idea of the system of checks and balances was that no one branch of government should be able to get too far out of control without being put in check by the others. If a president starts trying to act like a despotic king, he can be impeached by Congress. If Congress starts trying to pass a series of laws that are blatantly unconstitutional, those laws can be overturned by the Supreme Court.

For example, the president is named by the Constitution as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, giving him an incredibly powerful ...