THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF
THE USA
THE POLITICAL SYSTEM
THE POLITICAL SYSTEM
OF THE USA
OF THE USA
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Government
• Presidential Republic
• 50 states, centralized government in
Washington
• Separation of powers
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Separation of powers
Executive
leading the affairs
of the state
Cabinet
President
Vice
President 15
ministers
Legislative
enacting and
discussing laws
Congress
House of
Representatives
(435)
Senate (100)
Judiciary
Pushing through the
laws
Supreme Court
(=highest judicial
body)
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State
Government
Each State has its own separate government
There are 3 branches
•State governor
•State legislative
•State court
Responsibilities
•Police
•Education
•Transport
•Social Welfare
•Health
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The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the
United States of America. It is the framework for the organization of the United
States government and for the relationship of the federal government with the
states, citizens, and all people within the United States. The United States
Constitution is the oldest written constitution (when defined as a single
document) still in use by any nation in the world.
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Political Parties
Republican Party
They believe in low taxation
And little interference from the
Federal Government. The
encourage individuals to work
hard and do not like welfare.
A party for the rich and Middle
Class.
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Republican Presidents
Richard Nixon
196974
Dwight Eisenhower
195361
Gerard Ford
197477
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Political Parties
Democratic Party
Believe it is the governments duty to distribute wealth
Evenly. They introduce higher taxation and welfare
benefits.
Their support comes from urban areas and minorities.
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Democrat Presidents
John F Kennedy 196163
Lyndon B Johnson
196368
Jimmy Carter 197781
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Harry Truman194553
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Democrats and Republicans
And Their Voters
• Protestant voters
• Business community
• White collar workers
• Religious
fundamentalists
• Democrats supported
by majority of black
voters (Clinton 83%)
• Urban ethnics
• Blue collar workers
• Catholics
• More women voters
• Northeast, upper
midwest, northwest,
Hawaii
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Democrats and Republicans and
Their Policies
• Rebublicans
– Limiting federal
regulation of business
– Reduction in welfare
spending
– Antiabortion
• Democrats
– Support welfare
programs
– Keynesian economics
and job creating
programs
– Social security,
Medicare and
Medicaid
– Civil Rights legislation
– Women’s right to
abortion
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Presidential elections
• Plurality voting system: „The winner takes all!“
• Election of a party in form of electors
• Elected electors represent the opinion of their
state in the „Electoral College“
• The party with the most votes gets all the
electoral votes of this state > The parties have
to look that they win in the states with a high
amount of electors.
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Problem
• Parties and candidates try to get as many
as possible votes in states with a high
amount of electors and ignore the others
• The party with more than 270 electoral
votes wins, though an other one has more
votes of the people in fact (f.e. Bush vs.
Gore)
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Abortion
Supports
Gay Rights
Supports
Iraq War
Opposes
Taxation
Opposes
Strong supporter of
Women's Rights, and is
prochoice. Voted against
banning partial birth
abortion.
Voted against the
constitutional banning of
gay marriage, believes
each state should decide
whether to ban gay
marriage or not.
Has opposed going into
Iraq the entire time. Wants
to immediatley pull troops
out of Iraq.
Repeal President Bush's
tax cuts to the wealthy, and
would like to spend money
on infrastructure and health
care.
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Universal
Health Care
Immigration
Supports
Gun Control
Opposes
Free Trade
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Believe's every american
deserves quality and
affordable healthcare.
States that immigrants
that have been in
America long should get
a path to citizenship.
Stronger border controls.
Supports stricter gun
control, and ban on semi
automatic guns.
Wants to keep NAFTA and
other free trade agreements
intact, but revise by raising
environmental and labor
standards to protect
American jobs and workers.
Somewhat vague on the
details of what specifically
these revisions would call
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