I played the Court Quest game. The point of the game was to listen to people from different places in the U.S. who had cases they wanted to bring to court. As the player, you had to decide whether they belonged in state or federal court, and also which court specifically they belonged in based on the details of their case. If they lost the case, you had to help them appeal. Overall, I helped 20 people reach their desired verdicts in different regions in both federal and state courts.
Hannah: Like Oran, I played this game also. I thought, for the first ten people it was fun and interesting to learn which types of cases required you to go to either federal or state court. However, by about the 12th person, I began to think the game was too easy. Then I tried to play with the speed setting, and it became more difficult again. When playing the speed round, I found that I was focused more on helping as many people as possible. By playing it quickly, I would tend to not read everything the person was telling me, which caused me to place more people in the wrong courts. Overall, I thought this game was fun and it really helped to give me clarity when learning about which cases pertained to either courts. Most importantly I learned the distinction between the courts and what crimes result in court assignments. The court of the court assignment is huge to the criminal trial process.
I was the president of the United States in Executive Command, and it was a big deal. Actually it was an overwhelming deal. I soon was made the president of the United States and had to make a State of the Union speech, I also had to keep up with never-ending emails about bills that had to be looked at and signed off or vetoed. At the same time I was soon engaged in a war with "Neverland." To summarize I had to approve or veto over 15 bills, maintain a war on our shores with Neverland (they were crazy), attend meetings abroad with other countries that wanted to help us fight the Neverlandese, appoint certain departments to delegate certain bills, and at the same time have a dinner with my family and some members of Congress. The game taught me that the president's job is more difficult than it looks. His life is constantly being taken up by his job and I don't know if I could have played this game any longer than I had without just vetoing every bill, and letting the Neverlandese take us over. I also realized that the president has to be selfless because everything that he does has to be done to protect
I played the game "Law Craft" in which I had to play as either a representative or a senator. In this game I had to select an issue and address it in a bill. When creating the bill I had to balance it so that it would be favorable to the opinions of the majority of both parties. While creating the bill I also had to keep into consideration the value that I considered to be most important. After I got the bill through the Senate, I then had to amend the bill so that it could pass through the House of Representatives and then finally be signed by the President. From the game I learned that a lot of balancing and compromising has to be done with bills in order to get them through both houses and to finally be signed by the president and become a bill. I also found that there are a large number of factors that determine whether people favor a bill or not, even for a small issue.
I played the game "Freedom of Speech" game, which gave a look into the area of the Supreme Court, and how to analyze the constitution for use in court cases. The main case I followed in the game was the case of "Tinker vs. Des Moines Independent Community School District". The purpose of the case was to decide whether the school was within its rights to suspend students for wearing peace bands on their arms during the Vietnam War, after a rule had been set forbidding it. The plantiff in this case was the Tinker family, the family of two of the kids who were suspended, as well as the Eckhardt family. My job was to review the information in the case, as well as learn about the process that the different courts do. In the end of the game, I was in the supreme court, and based on the information I was presented with, I decided to defend the Tinker family. I won my case using the information that was presented throughout the game, and with that the game ended.
Gary: I played the same game as Brad, the Executive Command, in which I was made the president of the United States. There were two parts to my job: domestic and foreign relation. Domestically, I have to carefully examine every line items of the bills sent to me and decide whether the bill should become a law. My authority allowed me to effectively prevent a bad bill from becoming a law; perhaps this is the reason why president was authorized with veto power to check Congress. Sometimes, I had to veto a bill just because of one bad item. That kind of bill was usually sent back to me again with the bad item deleted. When I was enforcing laws by delegating the power to different departments such as Homeland Security or Education, I learned that these departments all perform very specific functions. In addition, even though Congress was a separate branch, I had to work very closely with Congress to address my issues and fulfill my promises, as Congress chooses what is on its legislative agenda. On the other hand, I had to travel a lot to maintain good foreign relationship with other countries. Since I had so many duties, besides relying on my staff members, I had to prioritize. For example, when Neverland was at war with the US, I stopped worrying about all the domestic issues and devoted myself into commanding the US army. I also learned that the president is checked by the media as the media reports and discusses all his actions to the people.
In the Branches Game I played, I was to play the role of the three branches, executive, judicial and legislative. I was able to select which position I wanted to be. I started with the legislative branch and was called to a meeting. There, I had to answer questions from the public concerning technology issues. I had to answer yes or no, and with each answer, I could gain or lose supporters. Once I had enough followers, I ended my meeting. Then I switched to executive and judicial, but they didn't have anything to do yet. Back in legislative, a bill was proposed to me. I had to check off the reasons I liked and supported. I noticed that as I checked and unchecked certain ideas, my followers would change. I guess that is how today's politicians feel when they make statements and are trying to gain support. After the bill that I voted yes on passed through, I got an executive duty. I had to, as the president, read over the bill and either sign it or veto it. I decided to sign it and that was easily the hardest part because I couldn't get the pen to work. This game really helped me see how the process works of a bill becoming a law and having to travel through a process through branches, even though I never got to use my judicial powers.
I played the same game as Edward and it was VERY challenging. The journey a bill has to take to become a law is immense and comes with many obstacles. The senator I played had a value of cost saving and was a republican. The majority of the ideas that other senators agreed on my "value" wouldn't let me pass. It was tremendously difficult to receive a majority vote from the houses. The balance between keeping my senators own value but also trying to convince others of the bill is very difficult to establish. I switched topics many times before I could find one that led me to some success. I learned a lot about how difficult it is to pass a law and the perseverance members of both houses must have to see a law passed. I gained so much respect for the jobs law makers have today because I wanted to give up even before the Senate (the house of origin) passed it. Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives have monumentally challenging jobs and I wouldn't have really understood that without experience their obstacles in this game.
Nick Schutz: I represented the Judicial Branch in government in the game John Marshall. I played John Marshall, who served as Chief Justice longer than anyone else in history. The game covers the Marbury vs. Madison case, when the Secretary of State was to be forced by the court to hand over the commissions the Judicial Branch felt entitled to. The Judicial Branch was capable of enabling that to be done. (At this point the game stopped working, and I kept going back but it never got past this point.) Anyway, what I learned was that the legal system has many steps to get something executed. The Judicial Branch is composed of many intricate laws and acts that either allow or disallow someone from doing something. Then, after an action has been done, people try to justify what happened through the laws that exist. The game allows us to feel how difficult it is to get familiar with a case, and how many hours it would take to familiarize yourself in the case. All in all it was very cool to experience how the Judicial System worked and what it was like to familiarize yourself in a case.
Craig Waldie: I played the Branches of power game which has you controlling all three branches in order to create new laws that address current issues. This game taught me how difficult it is to not only create new laws that will fix certain issues but also have the laws please not only congress but the people as well. It also helped me learn more about the process of making a bill a law and the many steps it takes to create it. In order to first start a bill you had to hold a press conference where you would talk about the issues and answer questions about it. From there you had, as a congressman, to create the specifics of the bill. This was the hardest part as you had to make certain points that would appeal to enough people that they would vote for it. Then it went to the president where you could choose to approve or veto it. Finally it would go to the supreme court where it would decided upon whether or not it was constitutional.
I played the same game as Connor, the “Freedom of Speech” game. During this game, I learned about the Tinker v. Des Moines School Board case, which involved symbolic speech. Two kids were suspended from school for wearing black arm bands with peace signs on them to protest the Vietnam War, violating a previous school ban. This also game involved the process in which a case was dealt with. The Tinkers first filed their case with the U.S District Court. Once they lost in that court, they appealed to the Court of Appeals and eventually appealed to the U.S Supreme Court. The U.S. District Court deals with criminal and civil cases, but there are also the Military Courts and U.S. Courts of International Trade which deal with the cases respective to their names. Something I learned from the game is that the name of a case typically consists of the name of the plaintiff, the person who filed the suit, followed by the defendant. At the end of the game, I chose to defend the Tinkers during the trial. Chief Justice Earl Warren and his eight associate justices ruled in favor of the Tinkers because the First Amendment protected the students and they did not cause any disruptions or violate the rights of others while protesting with the black arm bands.
Heather: I played the game that Cailey played, Branches of Power, which let me do different things as each branch of the Government. First, for the Legislative branch I had to pick two values that my character would support. The values were things like Liberty vs. Equality and Competition vs. Cooperation and Cost Saving vs. Generosity. I picked Liberty and Cooperation, because those were two of the main ideas that formed America and I think they're important to a republic. Next, I had to choose three different issues that the president would address during their term in office. Finally I started the game, and after my original confusion about switching between branches, I realized that they all have to work together. The issues that the president wants to address have to be made into a law by Congress and that law has to be ok'd by the Supreme Court. As a congressman, I had to hold town meetings and answer questions to gain supporters. After gaining supporters at the town meetings, I had to form the actual bill itself. I noticed that as I chose different things to add into the document, sometimes I lost supporters. This, in turn, would make it harder for the president to sign the bill because it had such little support of the people. I also had to be very careful about keeping the bill constitutional, otherwise it would be rejected by the Supreme Court later, after all the work that went into it. I learned from making the bill that it is actually really hard to keep everybody happy because when you add different ideas, you lose supporters, and they are very important because they give the law meaning and help it get passed. This game made me realize all of the work that goes into passing bills. When a president is faced with an issue, he knows that there is so much to do before it can become a law, and so many people that have to be content with it. It has to be perfect before it can finally be put into place, and cooperation between the three branches of the government is absolutely necessary.
Baron Lee: I played the Court Quest game. In the game, I played as a lawyer, helping people choose which court system to go through, then which courts to appeal at. It was difficult at first as some cases are difficult to tell whether federal courts or state courts are the way to go. After choosing either state or federal, there are many courts, each focusing on different cases. If the person loses the case, I have to refer the person to another court. However, as the person appealed more, it was easier to choose the court as there was less courts to go through as ou went higher up the court system. As I played the game more, it became easier to choose the right courts. I learned a lot about how crimes are able to go to the Supreme Court. It's a really long process as there are many courts a person has to go through before receiving a final decision. The lawyers must go through a lot of time and effort to help their person. I can respect the lawyers a lot more than before because often times, they have to choose the rights court, and any mistake costs their person lots of money and wasted time.
Jack Huang: I played “Executive Command” where I played the role of president and resolved domestic and international issues. I was involved in addressing congress on an issue of my choice (which was energy), passing bills and assigning them to the correct departments, and resolving foreign affairs such as wars and treaties etc. Throughout the game, I had to judge if a bill was beneficial to the country or not. If I signed the bill, I was responsible for getting the newly made law to the correct department for it to be correctly executed, such as Homeland Security or Department of Energy. Through this I learnt about the different departments and their functions within the government and it also gives an easy and simple representation of the law-making process. The president’s power to veto is also stressed here, because it is the president’s responsibility to identify and veto deficient bills. I also addressed Congress about Energy issues in the country. I had to carefully decide what I should say to Congress to express the importance of saving energy and creating clean energy, in order to gain their support and for them to create bills that advocate energy saving. This expresses the importance of the president’s leadership in the country, how he should have a clear list of priorities he wants to fix in his country, and guide his country and government to achieving his goals. I was also involved in a war against Oz, whenever there was a threat to my country I acted as commander in chief at homeland defense and directed my troops as I see fit. This aspect of the game stresses the importance of how a president is needed to make quick decisions in order to keep the government and country running smoothly. The government cannot rely on hundreds of people voting for laws for hours on end.
Shelbie McCormack: I played the “Branches of Government” game which brought me through the process of the creation of a bill, the approval of the bill by the branches, and the percent approval by the people. The approval of the people was determined by the values that I had to set up at the beginning of the game. I chose equality and cooperation because they were key aspects as to why the colonists had rebelled against Britain during the American Revolution. The people then based their opinion of the bill I created by the values that I was led by and how I answered questions during a town meeting. These town meetings were crucial because they were a way for me to gain supporters who would later follow me in the production of my bill. Once the town meeting was over and my legislative representative understood what the people were looking for and the people understood what the government was promising, supporters of the issues increased. This helped in the deliberation of what aspects would be included in the bill itself. Once the legislative branch agreed, the executive branch had the power to sign the bill or veto it. If the bill was signed it was sent off to the Supreme Court for further examination. They determined if the bill was constitutional and followed the Constitution and the amendments. By playing this game, I learned that not all three branches might see eye to eye, but sending a bill back to its original house for amending could increase its success as a law. This change might also cause the loss of supporters. Many factors go into the creation of a law and proper discussion was key for the Supreme Court to uphold the bill. As Heather explained, “cooperation of all three branches is absolutely necessary”, but the officials in these branches need to fully understand where the other is coming from. The decisions of one branch affect the others. Later down the road, the people of the United States are affected as well, so the branches need to be wise in their decisions so that the people are protected and their lives improved.
I played the Court Quest game. The point of the game was to listen to people from different places in the U.S. who had cases they wanted to bring to court. As the player, you had to decide whether they belonged in state or federal court, and also which court specifically they belonged in based on the details of their case. If they lost the case, you had to help them appeal. Overall, I helped 20 people reach their desired verdicts in different regions in both federal and state courts.
ReplyDeleteHannah: Like Oran, I played this game also. I thought, for the first ten people it was fun and interesting to learn which types of cases required you to go to either federal or state court. However, by about the 12th person, I began to think the game was too easy. Then I tried to play with the speed setting, and it became more difficult again. When playing the speed round, I found that I was focused more on helping as many people as possible. By playing it quickly, I would tend to not read everything the person was telling me, which caused me to place more people in the wrong courts. Overall, I thought this game was fun and it really helped to give me clarity when learning about which cases pertained to either courts. Most importantly I learned the distinction between the courts and what crimes result in court assignments. The court of the court assignment is huge to the criminal trial process.
DeleteI was the president of the United States in Executive Command, and it was a big deal. Actually it was an overwhelming deal. I soon was made the president of the United States and had to make a State of the Union speech, I also had to keep up with never-ending emails about bills that had to be looked at and signed off or vetoed. At the same time I was soon engaged in a war with "Neverland." To summarize I had to approve or veto over 15 bills, maintain a war on our shores with Neverland (they were crazy), attend meetings abroad with other countries that wanted to help us fight the Neverlandese, appoint certain departments to delegate certain bills, and at the same time have a dinner with my family and some members of Congress. The game taught me that the president's job is more difficult than it looks. His life is constantly being taken up by his job and I don't know if I could have played this game any longer than I had without just vetoing every bill, and letting the Neverlandese take us over. I also realized that the president has to be selfless because everything that he does has to be done to protect
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ReplyDeleteI played the game "Law Craft" in which I had to play as either a representative or a senator. In this game I had to select an issue and address it in a bill. When creating the bill I had to balance it so that it would be favorable to the opinions of the majority of both parties. While creating the bill I also had to keep into consideration the value that I considered to be most important. After I got the bill through the Senate, I then had to amend the bill so that it could pass through the House of Representatives and then finally be signed by the President. From the game I learned that a lot of balancing and compromising has to be done with bills in order to get them through both houses and to finally be signed by the president and become a bill. I also found that there are a large number of factors that determine whether people favor a bill or not, even for a small issue.
ReplyDeleteI played the game "Freedom of Speech" game, which gave a look into the area of the Supreme Court, and how to analyze the constitution for use in court cases. The main case I followed in the game was the case of "Tinker vs. Des Moines Independent Community School District". The purpose of the case was to decide whether the school was within its rights to suspend students for wearing peace bands on their arms during the Vietnam War, after a rule had been set forbidding it. The plantiff in this case was the Tinker family, the family of two of the kids who were suspended, as well as the Eckhardt family. My job was to review the information in the case, as well as learn about the process that the different courts do. In the end of the game, I was in the supreme court, and based on the information I was presented with, I decided to defend the Tinker family. I won my case using the information that was presented throughout the game, and with that the game ended.
ReplyDeleteGary: I played the same game as Brad, the Executive Command, in which I was made the president of the United States. There were two parts to my job: domestic and foreign relation. Domestically, I have to carefully examine every line items of the bills sent to me and decide whether the bill should become a law. My authority allowed me to effectively prevent a bad bill from becoming a law; perhaps this is the reason why president was authorized with veto power to check Congress. Sometimes, I had to veto a bill just because of one bad item. That kind of bill was usually sent back to me again with the bad item deleted. When I was enforcing laws by delegating the power to different departments such as Homeland Security or Education, I learned that these departments all perform very specific functions. In addition, even though Congress was a separate branch, I had to work very closely with Congress to address my issues and fulfill my promises, as Congress chooses what is on its legislative agenda. On the other hand, I had to travel a lot to maintain good foreign relationship with other countries. Since I had so many duties, besides relying on my staff members, I had to prioritize. For example, when Neverland was at war with the US, I stopped worrying about all the domestic issues and devoted myself into commanding the US army. I also learned that the president is checked by the media as the media reports and discusses all his actions to the people.
ReplyDeleteIn the Branches Game I played, I was to play the role of the three branches, executive, judicial and legislative. I was able to select which position I wanted to be. I started with the legislative branch and was called to a meeting. There, I had to answer questions from the public concerning technology issues. I had to answer yes or no, and with each answer, I could gain or lose supporters. Once I had enough followers, I ended my meeting. Then I switched to executive and judicial, but they didn't have anything to do yet. Back in legislative, a bill was proposed to me. I had to check off the reasons I liked and supported. I noticed that as I checked and unchecked certain ideas, my followers would change. I guess that is how today's politicians feel when they make statements and are trying to gain support. After the bill that I voted yes on passed through, I got an executive duty. I had to, as the president, read over the bill and either sign it or veto it. I decided to sign it and that was easily the hardest part because I couldn't get the pen to work. This game really helped me see how the process works of a bill becoming a law and having to travel through a process through branches, even though I never got to use my judicial powers.
ReplyDeleteI played the same game as Edward and it was VERY challenging. The journey a bill has to take to become a law is immense and comes with many obstacles. The senator I played had a value of cost saving and was a republican. The majority of the ideas that other senators agreed on my "value" wouldn't let me pass. It was tremendously difficult to receive a majority vote from the houses. The balance between keeping my senators own value but also trying to convince others of the bill is very difficult to establish. I switched topics many times before I could find one that led me to some success. I learned a lot about how difficult it is to pass a law and the perseverance members of both houses must have to see a law passed. I gained so much respect for the jobs law makers have today because I wanted to give up even before the Senate (the house of origin) passed it. Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives have monumentally challenging jobs and I wouldn't have really understood that without experience their obstacles in this game.
ReplyDeleteNick Schutz: I represented the Judicial Branch in government in the game John Marshall. I played John Marshall, who served as Chief Justice longer than anyone else in history. The game covers the Marbury vs. Madison case, when the Secretary of State was to be forced by the court to hand over the commissions the Judicial Branch felt entitled to. The Judicial Branch was capable of enabling that to be done. (At this point the game stopped working, and I kept going back but it never got past this point.) Anyway, what I learned was that the legal system has many steps to get something executed. The Judicial Branch is composed of many intricate laws and acts that either allow or disallow someone from doing something. Then, after an action has been done, people try to justify what happened through the laws that exist. The game allows us to feel how difficult it is to get familiar with a case, and how many hours it would take to familiarize yourself in the case. All in all it was very cool to experience how the Judicial System worked and what it was like to familiarize yourself in a case.
ReplyDeleteCraig Waldie: I played the Branches of power game which has you controlling all three branches in order to create new laws that address current issues. This game taught me how difficult it is to not only create new laws that will fix certain issues but also have the laws please not only congress but the people as well. It also helped me learn more about the process of making a bill a law and the many steps it takes to create it. In order to first start a bill you had to hold a press conference where you would talk about the issues and answer questions about it. From there you had, as a congressman, to create the specifics of the bill. This was the hardest part as you had to make certain points that would appeal to enough people that they would vote for it. Then it went to the president where you could choose to approve or veto it. Finally it would go to the supreme court where it would decided upon whether or not it was constitutional.
ReplyDeleteI played the same game as Connor, the “Freedom of Speech” game. During this game, I learned about the Tinker v. Des Moines School Board case, which involved symbolic speech. Two kids were suspended from school for wearing black arm bands with peace signs on them to protest the Vietnam War, violating a previous school ban. This also game involved the process in which a case was dealt with. The Tinkers first filed their case with the U.S District Court. Once they lost in that court, they appealed to the Court of Appeals and eventually appealed to the U.S Supreme Court. The U.S. District Court deals with criminal and civil cases, but there are also the Military Courts and U.S. Courts of International Trade which deal with the cases respective to their names. Something I learned from the game is that the name of a case typically consists of the name of the plaintiff, the person who filed the suit, followed by the defendant. At the end of the game, I chose to defend the Tinkers during the trial. Chief Justice Earl Warren and his eight associate justices ruled in favor of the Tinkers because the First Amendment protected the students and they did not cause any disruptions or violate the rights of others while protesting with the black arm bands.
ReplyDeleteHeather: I played the game that Cailey played, Branches of Power, which let me do different things as each branch of the Government. First, for the Legislative branch I had to pick two values that my character would support. The values were things like Liberty vs. Equality and Competition vs. Cooperation and Cost Saving vs. Generosity. I picked Liberty and Cooperation, because those were two of the main ideas that formed America and I think they're important to a republic. Next, I had to choose three different issues that the president would address during their term in office. Finally I started the game, and after my original confusion about switching between branches, I realized that they all have to work together. The issues that the president wants to address have to be made into a law by Congress and that law has to be ok'd by the Supreme Court. As a congressman, I had to hold town meetings and answer questions to gain supporters. After gaining supporters at the town meetings, I had to form the actual bill itself. I noticed that as I chose different things to add into the document, sometimes I lost supporters. This, in turn, would make it harder for the president to sign the bill because it had such little support of the people. I also had to be very careful about keeping the bill constitutional, otherwise it would be rejected by the Supreme Court later, after all the work that went into it. I learned from making the bill that it is actually really hard to keep everybody happy because when you add different ideas, you lose supporters, and they are very important because they give the law meaning and help it get passed. This game made me realize all of the work that goes into passing bills. When a president is faced with an issue, he knows that there is so much to do before it can become a law, and so many people that have to be content with it. It has to be perfect before it can finally be put into place, and cooperation between the three branches of the government is absolutely necessary.
ReplyDeleteBaron Lee: I played the Court Quest game. In the game, I played as a lawyer, helping people choose which court system to go through, then which courts to appeal at. It was difficult at first as some cases are difficult to tell whether federal courts or state courts are the way to go. After choosing either state or federal, there are many courts, each focusing on different cases. If the person loses the case, I have to refer the person to another court. However, as the person appealed more, it was easier to choose the court as there was less courts to go through as ou went higher up the court system. As I played the game more, it became easier to choose the right courts. I learned a lot about how crimes are able to go to the Supreme Court. It's a really long process as there are many courts a person has to go through before receiving a final decision. The lawyers must go through a lot of time and effort to help their person. I can respect the lawyers a lot more than before because often times, they have to choose the rights court, and any mistake costs their person lots of money and wasted time.
ReplyDeleteJack Huang: I played “Executive Command” where I played the role of president and resolved domestic and international issues. I was involved in addressing congress on an issue of my choice (which was energy), passing bills and assigning them to the correct departments, and resolving foreign affairs such as wars and treaties etc.
ReplyDeleteThroughout the game, I had to judge if a bill was beneficial to the country or not. If I signed the bill, I was responsible for getting the newly made law to the correct department for it to be correctly executed, such as Homeland Security or Department of Energy. Through this I learnt about the different departments and their functions within the government and it also gives an easy and simple representation of the law-making process. The president’s power to veto is also stressed here, because it is the president’s responsibility to identify and veto deficient bills.
I also addressed Congress about Energy issues in the country. I had to carefully decide what I should say to Congress to express the importance of saving energy and creating clean energy, in order to gain their support and for them to create bills that advocate energy saving. This expresses the importance of the president’s leadership in the country, how he should have a clear list of priorities he wants to fix in his country, and guide his country and government to achieving his goals.
I was also involved in a war against Oz, whenever there was a threat to my country I acted as commander in chief at homeland defense and directed my troops as I see fit. This aspect of the game stresses the importance of how a president is needed to make quick decisions in order to keep the government and country running smoothly. The government cannot rely on hundreds of people voting for laws for hours on end.
Shelbie McCormack: I played the “Branches of Government” game which brought me through the process of the creation of a bill, the approval of the bill by the branches, and the percent approval by the people. The approval of the people was determined by the values that I had to set up at the beginning of the game. I chose equality and cooperation because they were key aspects as to why the colonists had rebelled against Britain during the American Revolution. The people then based their opinion of the bill I created by the values that I was led by and how I answered questions during a town meeting. These town meetings were crucial because they were a way for me to gain supporters who would later follow me in the production of my bill. Once the town meeting was over and my legislative representative understood what the people were looking for and the people understood what the government was promising, supporters of the issues increased. This helped in the deliberation of what aspects would be included in the bill itself. Once the legislative branch agreed, the executive branch had the power to sign the bill or veto it. If the bill was signed it was sent off to the Supreme Court for further examination. They determined if the bill was constitutional and followed the Constitution and the amendments. By playing this game, I learned that not all three branches might see eye to eye, but sending a bill back to its original house for amending could increase its success as a law. This change might also cause the loss of supporters. Many factors go into the creation of a law and proper discussion was key for the Supreme Court to uphold the bill. As Heather explained, “cooperation of all three branches is absolutely necessary”, but the officials in these branches need to fully understand where the other is coming from. The decisions of one branch affect the others. Later down the road, the people of the United States are affected as well, so the branches need to be wise in their decisions so that the people are protected and their lives improved.
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