Introduction
When we speak of the government a lot of questions runs through the minds of people such as, where did it start from? who where the founders of government? how did the different types of government come about? During the first civilization in Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, Mexico and other places there where small communities know as kingdoms. These Kingdoms were governed by Kings, and from this civilization was established. These kings had different ways of ruling their kingdoms and from these methods of ruling, government came into existence. The term government refers to the way a group of people are ruled and how their rulers are chosen.
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States defined government
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A monarchy system of government is when the country is headed by one person that is either a king or queen, a perfect example is Great Britain. Aristocracy is when the country is ruled by “aristocrats”. Aristocrats are mainly educated and rich people.
Dictatorship is when a person or a group of people rule a country the way they feel is right. The views of the people are normally not taken into consideration during decision making, an example is North Korea. The United States of America, is a country made up of 50 states. In 1789, George Washington was elected the first president of the United States. At this time, a constitution was introduced that made the USA function through a federal system of government. This system of government was called federal system because it was signed by 13 states that gave up their freedom and independence in order to from a central government. When the 13 states decided to join hands to make one nation, some states decide to keep their policy and trade negotiations and the federal government could only do what the states permitted. This explains why the United States is an example of federalism. This is a system in which the nation shares powers with the lower level of government. The constitution grants two major types of powers to the congress: the expressed and implied. The expressed power of congress stated in Article 1, gives the legislation branch a huge
In the Unites States of America Federalism is the basic structure of the American government; it is the distribution and balance of powers between the National government and the States government. In order to obtain a compromise between those who wanted stronger state government and those who preferred a stronger national government the founding fathers arranged and settled for a federal system rather than the alternatives of a unitary or confederal system. While both National and State governments each have specific powers and authority, they also share certain powers and must be able to cooperate effectively with each other.
The United States is currently governed under a federalist constitution and has a deep rooted history of setting up its constitution to accommodate transparency, checks and balance and prevent tyranny. The federalist system of government is divided into the co-dependent central and state government. federalism in the united states give states the power to create their own laws, constitutions, and government structures. As stated in the U.S. Constitution (U.S.), enormous reservoirs of political power are thus derived from the people who reside in the states themselves. (champagne 2017)
Dictatorship – a government controlled by one person or a small group of people who make all decisions.
The United States of America have a federal constitution, where the President of the United States, Congress, and the judiciary share powers, and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments. This is the stark opposite to the unitary system in the UK where sovereignty lies in parliament and some powers are given to local assemblies. There are many types of federalism; all have been a dominant influence in the American political system at some point due to the style of leadership brought in by each new presidential candidate. Throughout U.S. history, the division of power between the federal
Federalism is a system of government in which the states and the federal government share power. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote the Federalist papers. The Federalist papers were a series of essay is to convince the states to ratify the constitution. Doc A excerpt #51 written by the James Madison in 1788. According to Doc A,”In the compound republic of America,the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct government, and the portion allotted (given) to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments.” The authors explain how the country’s power is divided between the states and the federal government. After the power is split into the states and the federal government, they are divided again into 3 branches called the legislative, the executive, and the judicial.This guards against tyranny because the power is divided between different levels of
Federalism is a system of Government made up between the States and the Federal Government to share equal power in America. In the thirteen colonies the citizens were made up of two genres the Federalist, whom strongest agreed with an national system and the anti-federalist, who loved the Articles of Confederation. In the government it was between the powers given to central and powers given to State governments and the main difference was that our National government has the power to can declare war and conduct foreign relation as in State governments they have the power to establish schools and set up local governments.[Doc A is an expert from Federalist papers #51 written by James Madison in 1788. Later the Constitution was written by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay wrote news articles on how amazing the constitution was and reasons on why states should ratify the Constitution] According to Doc A, “ The different government will each control each other at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.” James Madison explains how our two governments power will be shared and divided, while at the same time checking up on one another. *The constitution guards against tyranny, between our Federal Government and our States Government powers that were shared in Madison's compound
An example of a type a government is a democracy which is when the people elect their leaders either who will represent them or a government in which the people rule themselves. When the U.S. choose the type of government they wanted, it was a democracy because it let the people have power and the government have power. They did not want a Monarchy because they had just gotten out of one. A Monarchy is another form of government and in that government, the rulers are usually
Government: The means by which a society organizes itself and allocates authority in order to accomplish collective goals. A country in where representatives are appointed to make political decisions on their behalf. The first governing document created by the founding fathers was the Articles of
The concept of federalism came about as an answer to the failed confederation of states that existed following the Revolutionary War. Power, under the Articles of Confederation, was held primarily by the states, and the national government was made to be weaker than that of the states. This led to not only dissention between the states, as each tried to promote its own interests, but also to a national government that was too weak to provide essential services such as national security. In order to establish a national government that had adequate power and authority to perform its functions, while also maintaining rights of states to manage their own affairs, the framers of the US Constitution designed a federalist system, where power and
There were fourdifferent theories of governments, the force theory, the evolutionary rule, the divine right theory, and social contract theory. The Force theory was when one person or group of people gained control of the area and forced others to submit to their rule. The evolutionary Rule basically said that the states would develop naturally out of family clans, tribes, ect. The divine right theory said that the state was created by God and God gave people of royal birth the “divine right to rule”. The social contract theory was created by Thomas Hobbes and he believed that before the state people were British. People lived poorly and to improve their lives people could enter into a social contract
Throughout history, there have been many systems of government that have been created, and have revolutionised todays modern forms of government. Democracy, Monarchy, Dictatorship, Theocracy, and Anarchy all use various, unique techniques on how to run a civilization. Each of them require different leadership traits in order for it to work properly.
Federalism is described as a political system including multiple levels of government where power is the divided by central authority and constituent political units. The American National Government the states are the constituent units of the federation. Prohibited by the Constitution, Congress cannot solely make the decision to change existing states boundaries or the alteration of its government. The power of the federal government has increased considerably through court decisions and legislative. Political debate has talked about giving power back to the states. For most of history the states and federal government's relationship has been a controversy.
Authoritarianism is a form of government in which the leader or leaders have exclusive power concerning matters of the state. Although these
Federalism is a system of government that divides power between a national government and a regional government with the use of a constitution. Throughout the United States history, federalism has played a significant role in the constitution and the system of government adopted by the United States of America. Federalism has also changed throughout the course of America's history to fit the constitution and the government.
A dictatorship is a government ruled by one commander. An example of this is Iraq. Saddam Hussein is the dictator of Iraq. Whatever he decides becomes law. Dictatorships are similar to absolute monarchies in that they are very oppressive to the people of the country. The major difference between the two is that absolute monarchies are families inheriting their power while dictatorships often result from military takeovers or from an elected official who refuses to step down from his elected office.