What did the atomic bomb achieve that conventional military force had not yet done?
a. eliminated japan's entire naval force
b. forced the japanese to surrender
c. destroyed japan's oil reserves
d. forced the japanese to retreat from china

Correct answer choice is :

President Harry S. Truman, advised by some of his authorities that any effort to attack Japan would appear in horrific American fatalities, directed that the new weapon is used to take the war to a quick end. On August 6, 1945, the American plane Enola Gay released a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Hiroshima was preferred because it had not been targeted during the US Air Force's current bombing attacks on Japan, and was therefore considered as being a proper place to test the results of an atomic bomb. It was also an essential army camp.

separation of powers, therefore, refers to the division of government responsibilities into distinct branches to limit any one branch from exercising the core functions of another.   the intent is to prevent the concentration of power and provide for checks and balances.  

the traditional characterizations of the powers of the branches of american government are:

* the legislative branch is responsible for enacting the laws of the state and appropriating the money necessary to operate the government.

* the executive branch is responsible for implementing and administering the public policy enacted and funded by the legislative branch.

* the judicial branch is responsible for interpreting the constitution and laws and applying their interpretations to controversies brought before it.

forty state constitutions specify that government be divided into three branches:   legislative, executive and judicial.   california illustrates this approach; "the powers of state government are legislative, executive, and judicial.   persons charged with the exercise of one power may not exercise either of the others except as permitted by this constitution."

while separation of powers is key to the workings of american government, no democratic system exists with an absolute separation of powers or an absolute lack of separation of powers. governmental powers and responsibilities intentionally overlap; they are too complex and interrelated to be neatly compartmentalized. as a result, there is an inherent measure of competition and conflict

minnesota:   minnesota house research,   separation of powers: when statutes and court rules conflict, 2005

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