Policy-Making Across Branches

Making public policy in the United States is rarely a single branch acting alone: Congress typically writes the broad legal framework, the executive branch and its agencies interpret and enforce that framework through regulations and everyday administration, and the courts resolve disputes over what the law actually requires and whether a specific action taken under it is constitutional. Because policy can keep shifting as each branch acts and reacts to what the others have done, understanding a specific policy area often means tracing this back-and-forth across all three branches, not just looking at the original law Congress passed.

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