DEMOCRATIC AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

Democratic American Government

Democratic American Government

Introduction

A government system depends on the perspective with which they look. They can be categorized as dependent or independent variable in the political process, in at least two dimensions, if one considers that determines or is determined by the electoral system or party and if they are seen as cause or effect of changes in the social system. According to this classification, if governments are considered as independent variable, they assume an authoritarian or totalitarian as if they are seen as dependent variable will be pluralistic and democratic governments (Fukuyama, 1992).

American government

America is a constitutional republic, presidential and federal. Her government has some limited powers enumerated in the Constitution of the United States. Its form of government is known as presidential democracy because a president. The presidential election is indirect, through electors or electors. The country is composed of 50 autonomous states in its domestic system. The main political parties are the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, who dominate the political scene for what some consider the system of this country as a bipartisan democracy. Other minor parties are the Green Party, the Constitution Party and Libertarian Party. The Democrats and Republicans have more than 95% of territorial representation.

The United States Constitution, the September 17th of 1787 with their seven articles and 27 amendments later, the United States is a country democratic, representative and federal governed by a president elected for a term of four years. The President has the powers of head of state and government, in addition to being the commander in chief of the Army. It is also the head of executive power that is vested in him and that exercised by other and with the vice president and Cabinet members, heads of executive departments, which are State, Treasury, Defense, Justice, Homeland Security, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Housing and Urban Development, Transport, Energy and Veterans Affairs (Higgs, 1997).

Power under Democracy

To vote in the U.S., a U.S. citizen must be over 18 years and have his civil rights. Suffrage is universal direct representatives, indirect for the presidential election. The abstention is calculated in relation to all potential voters, not just in relation to the registered voter, as is the case in France. The special interests are represented by all kinds of lobbies ranging from the environmental protection to bear arms. Campaign financing is public financing for the presidential campaign, controlled by the Federal Election Commission. Separation of powers is guaranteed by the Constitution and its application is very strict. Congress creates the laws, the President executes them, and the Supreme Court interprets.

The President may veto against a new law, but Congress can override if more than two-thirds of each chamber's support and may also appoint the judges of the Supreme Court and various ministers, but the Senate must first approval. The House of Representatives has the power of impeachment (indictment), the Senate has the power to judge, allowing them to remove the President from office, ...