Answer: The executive branch enforces laws. The judicial branch interprets laws. But it is in the law-making legislative branch, says Howard Schweber, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, “that the people deliberate and arrive at an agreement about the common good.”
When writing the U.S. Constitution, the framers built in three branches of federal government to ensure a separation of powers, and, as Article I states, “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”
“The point of the Constitution was to replace a system in which the national government could only make laws that affected states in their relations with one another,” Schweber says. “The new system would be one in which the national government would make laws that applied to everyone—true national legislation.
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