Out of the three branches of government who has the most power?

None of them the powers are balanced.

The judiciary has the last word, but can be packed by the legislative and executive, or simply ignored by the executive (see trail of tears and Andrew Jackson)
The legislature can remove members of the judiciary or executive, but they have to work together.
They have the power of the purse as well, can start the amendment process, have to approve appointments and treaties, declare war etc. They write the laws and can override a veto.
The Executive is concentrated in one person, can veto, chooses who is vetted for appointments etc.

 

Well, you know first of all like you're all like totally wrong about those three branches of government, man...



Maybe her parents bribed an official to get her into Columbia.

To answer your question, it seems more and more the judiciary is writing our laws.

 

None should have the most power.The system of checks and balances ascribed to the separation of powers was chosen so that the three branches would balance each other out giving equal power to all three.

 

She is, single handedly, destroying dumb blond jokes...

 

The executive branch has the capacity to act before the other branches can do anything to stop it.
So, while the three branches are legally and constitutionally co-equal, in terms of exercising power, the executive branch is miles ahead of the others.

 

SCOTUS can strike down any law congress passes, if deemed unconstitutional. Congress has no recourse to this, other than to amend the constitution, which requires WAY more than just a majority.

 

The three branches are intended to interact in a balanced and equitable way.

 

I agree that each holds a different type of power. That each can be a check on the other two. A president can veto any legislation congress passes, but with 2/3rds vote in each chamber, that veto can be over ridden. Congress can not act on any legislation the president wants and can refuse to fund any projects the president wants. Unless congress ceded its power to the administration via legislation.

The SCOTUS can void any legislation by determining it to be unconstitutional and also certain acts by the president. Certainly different powers, but each one can be a check on the other two. If they so desire.

Having said all of this, the presidency is probably the most powerful as over the years, decades congress has ceded a lot of their constitutional powers to the administration and to different government agencies. The SCOTUS has become more of a political entity which seems to have their own political agenda when it comes to interpreting the Constitution. Obama found many ways to go around congress, bypass congress with his pen and his phone, the use of executive orders and now Trump using the power congress gave him to declare a national emergency. Presidents bypass congress all the time in that any administration determines which laws to enforce and which to ignore along with giving instructions in how to enforce those law which can change the intent of the original law.

Congress is probably the weakest due to the ceding of a lot of congress's powers to the administration and other government agencies. A lot of being the weakest is due to the plain fact that members of congress of the president's party have become more part of the administration than members of the institution of congress. My two cents anyway.

 

The Power is evenly divided because our Founders were brilliant
thinkers.No established Government has ever been so carefully and
judiciously crafted.The Seperation of Power model has been around since
ancient Greece.It is used as a form of checks & Balances.
The goal is to prevent a concentration of unchecked power.
Precisely what Obama the Meek was looking to dismantle.He accomplished
it with the Press or Mainstream media.With his Justice Dept. and IRS.
With his Senate who his first years refused to even debate a budget.
Harry Reid never voted-on or passed a budget in Obama's first term.
There was never a lick of concern over this.Just whenever the
Debt Limit or debt ceiling comes due.

 

You missed the unelected deep state bureaucracy.. I think , considering the massive power they've demonstrated in trying to unseat a duly elected President, that they must be included inthis discussion.

 

They are co-equal

 

Are they?

 

Yes.

 

Except that the legislative branch could limit the executive if they wanted, they could change that.

The executive can never limit the legislative in any way.

 

The Thread is somewhat ambigious.It's like asking who has
more power in a big college basketball game.The lead scorer or the
coach.They are both of key importance.On any one night,the coach
may be the most instrumental,and then the following game the lead
scorer of the team is the clear star.
It may boil down to perspective.Life isn't the Olympics.
Nor should our Government with it's 3 branches.
Hitler obviously knew the importance of Teamwork.Even though he
was a Monster.He earned his fate.Not too delighted about his Girl
Eva Braun or his Dog { Blondie } who ended their life with cyanide.

 

Judicial.

 

But the legislative can remove the judicial until they get the judges they want.

The Judicial cannot do that to the legislative.

And on top of that the legislative tells the judicial how they should rule by what they make legal or not.

The judicial cannot stop the legislative from doing their enumerated or implied powers, but the legislative can stop them.

 

Under the Constitution, Congress is the most powerful branch, if for no other reason than its ability to write the laws under which the other branches operate.

In the post-constitutional pseudorepublic we live in today, the Judiciary is the most powerful branch because so many idiots think it's the final word on the Constitution.

He can, but Congress can strip him of 99% of his power inside of 2 weeks, and he has no legal recourse.

 

The separate powers of government are designed to have some checks and balances. At the moment the Supreme Court has none.

 

They can be impeached.

 

Yes, that is true. But their rulings and decisions are immune from any checks and balances.

 

They are also, as noted in Federalist #78, utterly impotent absent enforcement by the Executive branch.

 

Except judicial review: ruling certain laws that Congress passes unconstitutional

 

Federal courts can still issue orders without the executive branch, and hold parties in contempt, issuing arrest warrants without charges.

But again, these are laws passed by Congress that gave them that authority.

 

Judicial review (by the Supreme Court) isn't really a power explicitly spelled out in the Constitution.

In practice they have this power only because Congress will rarely do anything about it, and relies on them to apply the law.