what type of goverment do we have in the united states?
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one that is run by a chimp
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The Federal (or National) government is the central, United States government based in Washington, DC. The state government is in respect to each of the 50 states and their governing institutions.
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the US is a mainly a republic  with a touch of democracy. a democracy is government that every issue would be voted on by the people. a republic is where the people elected someone to vote for them on issue. the only time we are democracy is when we vote directly on issues.
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the US government is separated into three branches of goverment that theoretically ensure a balance of power.  These branches are the legistislature (house & senate), exectutive (president) and the judicial (supreme court).  \n\nEach branch is designed to work independent of one another, though at the same time work with each other to create laws, implement policy and to interpret the constitution through the judicial process. \n\nA governor is similar to the executive branch, but for a state. \n\nCongressman are those who are elected to the House of Representatives and Senators are those who are elected to the Senate.  Each state is represented by 2 senators for a total of 100.  The number of representatives from each state to the House is determined by its population.  The House and Senate were both created to ensure equal representation of all states, without favoring larger states.\n\nThe House of Representatives writes legistlation (laws).  But before they are made into laws, the Senate must vote on a 51-49 majority to pass it into law and the president must sign the law to become official. \n\nHope this helps!
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Government is a system of social control under which the right to make laws, and the right to enforce them, is vested in a particular group in society. \n\nGovernments are distinguished by whether power is held by one man, a few, or a majority. Today, it is common to distinguish between types of government on the basis of institutional organization and the degree of control exercised over the society.\n\nOrganizationally, governments may be classified into parliamentary or presidential systems, depending on the relationship between executive and legislature. Government may also be classified according to the distribution of power at different levels. \n\nThe basic law determining the form of government is called the constitution and may be written, as in the United States, or largely unwritten, as in Great Britain. Modern governments perform many functions besides the traditional ones of providing internal and external security, order, and justice; most are involved in providing welfare services, regulating the economy, and establishing educational systems. The extreme case of governmental regulation of every aspect of people's lives is totalitarianism.
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I think governments and all persons on earth are controlled by the extremely wealthy elite. I believe they control election outcomes, economics, war between nations, food distribution and supply, and all things economic.\n\nI think the USA IS controlled by an elite government and decieves us daily.\n\nWould I investigate? No. What could I do anyway? If you stumbled on to anything incriminating you would just be killed, imprisoned, or publically decried.
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Here's a really great list... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forms_of_government
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A representative government has proven itself to be the best form of government.  No arguing that.  The US also has capitalism going for it.
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In the democratic form of goverment that the U.S. currently has, that is correct.\n\nDemocracy in the U.S. does not mean "rule by the majority."  In a democracy there are certain fundamental human rights that are protected.  Among these rights is the right to freely practice an individual's chosen religion, any religion, without government interference AND without establishing an official state religion over any other religion.
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What an interesting question, and so topical.  \n\nThe relationship between the government and the governed is markedly different from place to place and even time to time.  To make it really short, without getting into abstract arguments, a government is a "system of social control under which the right to make laws, and the right to enforce them, is vested in a particular group in society."  In the United States, where the system of government consists of a representative republic, the federal government consists of three branches, two of which, the executive and the legislative, are headed and controled by elected officials as provided for in the Constitution.  However, unlike many other countries, the geography, diversity and history of the United States has resulted in a complex system of laws that can vary widely based on the location in which a person lives.  So while everyone is governed and affected in certain aspects of life similarly by the federal government, one also is affected by the laws of the state in which one lives.  \n\nIt can be complex and I have provided an article on in my sources list for you to read in more detail.\n\n"American people" are a very diverse group comprising almost all races, creeds, and national origins, although the original founders of the government of the United States were primarily of European origin. Mny of the governing concepts and principles were heavily influenced by the classical education of the founding fathers and reflect many philosophical influences and practical issues that were contemporary in the late 18th century from current earlier Scottish, English, and French authors like Locke, Rousseau, Smith, et al.\n\nThe one constant in the American government over the years has been the flexibility of the constitution, which provides the government and its governed the possibility to make necessary changes as time passes in order to change the legal framework in which Americans live while guaranteeing them freedoms which are inmutable.  So while the American people have grown more diverse, their rights are protected by the same instrument that gives them the power to change their elected officials.  Some people like to say that the Government of the United States is "Of the people, for the people and by the people." \n\nHowever, it would be a serious fallacy to associate a vast body of 300 million people with a single government, no matter how it is constituted.  Many policies in the United States are controversial.  For example, the death penalty is supported in only certain states, and not in others.  A man convicted of murder in one state will receive a life sentence, but in another will get an injection of sodium pentathol.   no to try and paint "The American People" with one brush would be a mistake.  \n\nThere are many values that many Americans hold in common.  Many of these are enshrined in the constitution.  Many are unwritten but can be discerned in a short stay in the United States.  As Winston Churchill once famously said "you can count on the Americans to, after they have tried every thing else, to eventually do the right thing."  Eventually, through the system of checks and balances, justice generally prevails (though it can take a long time sometimes) and this is why even when the American Government may be unpopular abroad, millions of people each year seek to immigrate there from less fortunate places.  \n\nDisclaimer: Taking advice seriously from a person using Bubba as a screen name could be hazardous for your health. It has previously been known to impair judgement and result in unintended consequences and ugly scenes played out late at night in trailer parks.
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America, we have a little bit of everything lol
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A governmental system with a concentrated would be like a dictator.  All the powers of government (making the laws, enforcing the laws, and interpreting the laws) are concentrated into a few people's hands.  In the US, these powers of the government are split into the three seperate branches, but in an autocracy, all these powers are in one person's hands.
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The government of the United States, established by the U.S. Constitution, is a federal republic of individual states. The laws of the United States are contained in Acts of Congress; administrative regulations, and judicial cases interpreting the statutes and regulations. The federal government has three branches: the executive, legislative, and judicial. Through "checks and balances", each of these branches has some authority to act on its own, some authority to regulate the other two branches, and has some of its authority, in turn, regulated by one or two other branches.\n\nBecause of the federal government's size, broad powers and capabilities, it is widely considered the most powerful government in the world and the sole remaining superpower. Given their great powers in the world and nation, the President of the United States and his White House-based aides and Cabinet officials often are referred to as the most powerful people in the world.\n\nLegislative branch\nMain article: United States Congress \nThe Constitution grants all legislative powers of the federal government to the Congress, which is divided into two chambers, a Senate and a House of Representatives. The Senate is composed of two members from each state as provided by the Constitution. Membership in the House is based on each state's population, and its size is therefore not specified in the Constitution. Members of the House and Senate are elected by first-past-the-post voting in every state except Louisiana and Washington, which have runoffs.\n\nThe Constitution does not specifically call for the establishment of Congressional committees. As the nation grew, however, so did the need for investigating pending legislation more thoroughly. The 108th Congress (2003-2005) had 19 standing committees in the House and 17 in the Senate, plus four joint permanent committees with members from both houses overseeing the Library of Congress, printing, taxation, and the economy. In addition, each house can name special, or select, committees to study specific problems. Because of an increase in workload, the standing committees have also spawned some 150 subcommittees.\n\nThe Congress has the responsibility to monitor and influence aspects of the executive branch. Congressional oversight prevents waste and fraud, protects civil liberties and individual rights, ensures executive compliance with the law, gathers information for making laws and educating the public, and evaluates executive performance. It applies to cabinet departments, executive agencies, regulatory commissions, and the presidency. Congress's oversight function takes many forms:\n\nCommittee inquiries and hearings; \nFormal consultations with and reports from the President; \nSenate advice and consent for presidential nominations and for treaties; \nHouse impeachment proceedings and subsequent Senate trials; \nHouse and Senate proceedings under the 25th Amendment in the event that the President becomes disabled, or the office of the Vice President falls vacant; \nInformal meetings between legislators and executive officials; \nCongressional membership on governmental commissions; \nStudies by congressional committees and support agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office, and the Government Accountability Office, both of which are arms of Congress. \n\nResponsibilities of a Congressman\nEach individual Congressman must assume five roles. These roles include: legislator, committee member, representative of their constituents, servant of their constituents, and politician.\n\nPowers of Congress\nThe Constitution grants numerous powers to Congress. These include the power to: lay and collect taxes, pay debts, provide for common defense and general welfare of the U.S., borrow money on the credit of the U.S., regulate commerce with other nations, establish a uniform rule of naturalization, coin money and regulate its value, provide for punishment of counterfeiting, establish post
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Article 4 Section 4 of the US Constitution states: The United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.\n\nA republican form of government refers to government by representatives.  We are often referred to as a democratic republic because we elect representatives though a democratic process.  In a true democracy, they are no representatives, every action of government is voted on by the people.
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The USA is not a democracy we are a Republic.\nThis is a Republic\nOur Nation, The United States of America, is a REPUBLIC UNDER LAW not a democracy which was anathema to our founding fathers. The Constitution is the law, not popular opinion. \n\nA democracy is basically a 'majority rules' form of government, which is great for those who are part and parcel of the 'majority' but has the ability to deprive the minority of life, liberty and property. They can do this because all laws are determined by majority opinion which has no higher authority to answer to. A republic, on the other hand, is governed by law which cannot be changed by just any whim of the majority. \n\nOur nation is made of 50 states each with it's own Republican form of government [a prerequisite to statehood] and governed by it's own constitution.  In order to function as a whole, the states needed some form of federal government to handle matters which were beyond the scope of any one state's government; thus was born the Constitution of the United States of America. The Constitution granted clearly defined and limited powers to the Federal government in the areas of national defense, international affairs, interstate commerce and little else; the rest was left up to the individual states just as it was for the previous 150 years under their Charters from Great Britain [it was the usurpation and misuse of those powers by the King of Great Britain that eventually resulted in the war for independence]. \n\nThe Declaration of Independence says that God, our creator, has given us "certain unalienable rights" among which are "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness". The Constitution gives teeth to the Declaration by providing a permanent [they hoped] rule of law which would extend these blessings to many generations of our posterity. \n\nLiberty is precious, many have died for it. Obviously in any society liberty must be limited to prevent one person's liberty from encroaching upon the liberty of another, thus the need for governments [in our case the Constitution]. When one person uses their liberty to deprive another person of his or her life, liberty or property; it is the job of government [state government under the Constitution] to mete out justice which may require a loss of liberty, property and possibly life for the offender as he or she is forced to make restitution. \n\nThe founding fathers knew very well that men are easily corrupted when given too much power as any reading of James Madison's notes on the Constitutional Convention will make very clear. In light of this they went to great pains to assure that our new federal government would stand the test of time without degenerating into tyranny of which they were sorely afraid. All states were given equal representation in the Senate regardless of population and the government was divided into three branches: executive, judicial and legislative with a design to provide checks and balances on each other so no one of them would get out of hand. It has indeed stood the test of time and, if fact, has become the model for many other constitutions worldwide.
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A government with laws basically from religions like Old-Testament, New Testament and Quran.  I believe there is God and He has tried His best to guide us to make our community and personal life better by providing us Law.
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Yes, but it might depend on type of government