Law 5110 Quiz: Designing the executive’s substantive powers
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Designing the executive"s substantive powers: drafters of constitutions might also want to control executive powers through involvement of other actors in a decision-making process. A constitution can delineate those occasions when the government can declare a state of emergency; e. g. invasion or a natural catastrophe. Declaring a state of emergency can arguably aggregate power like no executive act. Include various stages, starting with the imitation of the legislation and ending with a bill"s promulgation into law. Substantive executive involvement in this process may occur at two stages: at the very beginning; initiative to legislate, legislature holds the unlimited authority to initiate the law-making process in all matters and sometimes even conclusively. 2 types of presidential interventions: reject a bill strictly for political reasons (political veto, challenge the constitutionality of the bill (veto on the constitutionality of the bill) Involvement of the executive in the law-making process may mean the power to initiate legislation or powers of veto.
