Title: Influences on Judicial Power - Judicial Law Essays
Headings: Influences on Judicial Power
Influences on Judicial Power
Content: According to Hamilton in Federalist 78, the judicial branch has the least amount of power among the three branches of government. The Judiciary is “the weakest of the three departments of power, that it can never attack with success either of the other two” (Woll, 410). The enumerated powers of Congress include the authority to collect taxes, borrow money, regulate commerce, and pass federal law. These assigned powers permit Congress to control the economy and regulate the public by adopting legislations. The Executive branch has the power to enforce laws, negotiate treaties, and accept ambassadors. Possessing these powers along with being the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, the President is capable of leading the federal government through perils pertaining to the public. The Judiciary “has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever? It may truly be said to have neither FORCE NOR WILL, but merely judgment” (Woll, 410).