National security means a nation state’s security, including its economy, institutions, and citizens, and it is regarded as the government’s duty. Initially, it was known as the protection against various military attacks; however, currently, it covers energy security, food security, environmental security, economic security, and cyber security (Quirk, 2018). The government depends on measurement ranges such as economic, military, diplomatic, and political factors to implement various national security measures. In this essay, I will discuss ways in which the separation of power, as well as checks and balances, affect national security.
Power separation affects the national security in various ways. The national security power was allocated to Congress, federal courts, and the president. First, Article 1 gives the Congress numerous wartime authorities (Gill, 2017). These powers include declaring war, appropriating funds and raising them for national defence, punishing and regulating war crimes as well as other international law violations, and regulating the armed forces’ conduct, such as a rule setting in reverence to the ones captured at sea as well as on land. Second, article 11 states the president as the armed forces’ commander in chief as well as grants this president the power to negotiate varies treaties, the Senate consent as well as subject to advise. Finally, article 111 grants judicially no specific national security power; however, they are allowed to listen to cases as well as controversies arising in the constitution of the United States, which regularly include questions on national security (Quirk, 2018).
The separation of power concept is enforced by the checks and balances series that ensures that no single government branch or person may become more powerful than the other. This system ensures that a federal government department or branch does not exceed its limit, guards against fraud as well as allows timely emissions or error correction. Thus, the check and balance system acts as a kind of sentry that overpowers separation, balancing separate government branches in practical use. The power to take action rests on one department, whereas the duty of verifying the legality as well as the appropriateness of this action depends on another department (Gill, 2017).
To sum, separation of power results in the division of national security power among the branches of the government, including the Congress, the president as well as judicially (Gill, 2017). The checks and balances ensure that no branch exceeds its power.
References
Gill, P. (2017). Controlling state crimes by national security agencies. In Controlling State Crime (pp. 81–114). Routledge.
Quirk, W. (2018). Courts and Congress: America’s Unwritten Constitution. Routledge.
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