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  2. Politics of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Flowchart of the U.S. federal political system. The United States is a constitutional federal republic, in which the president (the head of state and head of government), Congress, and judiciary share powers reserved to the national government, and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments.

  3. Federal government of the United States - Wikipedia

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    A diagram of the political system of the United States. The full name of the republic is the "United States of America". No other name appears in the Constitution, and this is the name that appears on money, in treaties, and in legal cases to which the nation is a party. The terms "Government of the United States of America" or "United States ...

  4. Outline of American politics - Wikipedia

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    First Party System; Second Party System; Third Party System; ... List of political parties in the United States. The two major national parties are: Democratic Party;

  5. Elections in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2014, scientists from Princeton University did a study on the influence of the so-called "elite", and their derived power from special interest lobbying, versus the "ordinary" US citizen within the US political system. They found that the US was looking more like an oligarchy than a real representative democracy; thus eroding a government of ...

  6. Divided government in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Divided government is seen by different groups as a benefit or as an undesirable product of the model of governance used in the U.S. political system. Under said model, known as the separation of powers, the state is divided into different branches. Each branch has separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility so that the powers ...

  7. State governments of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States comprises 50 states: 9 of the Thirteen Colonies that were already part of the United States at the time the Constitution took effect in 1789, 4 that ratified the Constitution after its commencement, plus 37 that have been admitted since by Congress as authorized under Article IV, Section 3 of the Constitution. [2]

  8. The two-party political system is a disaster. These reforms ...

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    Letters to the editor about the two-party system, endorsements of Rosa Torres for Pasco School Board and backing the Benton County Public Safety Tax. | Opinion The two-party political system is a ...

  9. Constitution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    [211] [219] Levitsky and Ziblatt argue that the US Constitution is the most difficult in the world to amend, and that this helps explain why the US still has so many undemocratic institutions that most or all other democracies have reformed, directly allowing significant democratic backsliding in the United States.