By Erin R. Kawa. 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 599.
The system of governance in the United States is a dynamic one. Power is divided between the federal and state governments, and then further divided between the three branches of the Federal Government itself. At the most basic level within the Federal Government, the Legislature creates the law, the Executive enforces the law, and the
Judiciary interprets the law. Each has its own roles and responsibilities within that framework, but each is nonetheless interdependent. Nearly any action of one branch implicates the roles and responsibilities of all branches. This Comment will analyze a specific instance of one branch’s action that implicates the roles of all: a suspect provision of an appropriations bill passed by the legislature that may affect the roles and duties of not only the legislature itself, but also the judiciary, and, most importantly, the executive as well . . . [keep reading]