What type government do united state have?

Answer 1

The U.S. government is a Federalist Republic government, a very strong central government derived from a federation of individual states that have yielded a great deal of their power to the central government. A Federalist government is largely led by an elite group of political professionals; although nominally responsible to the states and voters that they represent, in reality they form a distinct ruling class.

The form of government in the U.S.A. has been an issue of argument ever since the signing of the Constitution. The first two political parties in the U.S. were formed to identify the two sets of political opponents regarding the form of government.

The Federalist Party, led most notably by Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, favored a strong central government guided by well-educated professionals and with economic policies favorable to bankers, industrialists, merchants and other monied interests, along with a flexible interpretation of the Constitution.

The Jeffersonian* Party, led most notably by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (and later James Monroe), favored stronger State's Rights and a weaker central government (even to the extent of opposing a standing U.S. army), strict interpretation of the Constitution, and the interests of farmers and the rural economy as far more important than the welfare of the urban commercial interests.

Both of today's major U.S. political parties (Democratic and Republican) can trace their ancestry to the Jeffersonian Party, but our form of government is distinctly Federalist. That would suggest that big money drives human nature more effectively than fundamental principles do.

[* -- There is a tangle of alternative names for the factions of the loosely contructed Jeffersonian coalition. The Jeffersonians were variously called "Democratic", "Republican", and by their opponents "Democratic-Republican". Later there were "Old Republicans" who became "Jacksonian Democrats", the forerunner of today's Democratic Party; and "National Republicans" who later became the "Whigs", the forerunner of today's Republican Party.]

[[A Civil War political quirk -- Both the Lincolnian Republican Party which governed the Union and the Calhounian State's Righters which became the Confederacy were closely related offspring of the old "National Republican" party. During the Civil War, the Union became more Federalist and the Confederacy became more Jeffersonian.]]
Democracy

Answer 2

According to the CIA World Factbook the United States of America's government type is a Constitution-based federal republic with a strong democratic tradition.

Broken down further...

Constitution-based: The Constitution of the United States of America acts as the highest and supreme law of the Union.

Federal : The separate states are united by a central (federal) government.

Republic: A form of government where the head of state or of the executive is not a monarch. The people also have a direct involvement in the government through elections and voting.

Ultimately this means that the States (originally 13, now numbering 50) are each independent sovereign entities that are part of a union or federation. The states representation (the way that government is organized and carried out) in that union is based upon a republican form of government. The federal government (not to be confused with a national government) is bound and limited by the Constitution, which details what powers the federal government is to have, leaving all other issues to the States or to the people.

• Here are answers from other members of our community:
• The United States is a Representative Democracy bounded by a Constitution that restricts the representatives from legislating on certain matters.
• The United States officially operates under a federal constitutional presidential democratic republic form of government.The United States is a federal republic and a representative democracy.
• Although many people might say it's a democracy, the United States of America is actually a federal constitutional republic, which is a political system where the supreme power is held by the citizens who are entitled to vote for officials (such as the president) and representatives (such as senators and members of the House of Representatives) responsible to them (the people).
• Note: A republic is a type of democracy.
• The United States is a federal republic, a federation of states with a republican form of government, i.e., a representative democracy, where the citizens elect their representatives for fixed terms of office.
• The United States is a Representative Democracy bounded by a Constitution that restricts the representatives from legislating on certain matters. This is sometimes referred to as a republican form of government.
• It was originally a Constitutional Republic, and the Constitution spells out very plainly what powers the government has, which is actually quite few. We have grown into a Social Democracy, with the shroud of freedom of actually having representatives. And Social Democracies are all well and good so long as you are in the majority. If you are in a minority, your rights are in danger. In a Constitutional Republic, the minorities rights are protected.
• The US is the world's oldest Federation. However, the best answer came from old Ben Franklin himself, when asked. Sir what form of Government have you given us? ...Why a Republic ma'am.
• Any who state that we are a Democracy; they are indoctrinated to believe that. History does clearly show that a Democracy is among the most despotic forms of government, with the Roman Empire serving as the most prolific example.
• If a teacher tells you ours is a Democracy, they should not be teaching American history. If a politician tells you this, they should never be in-trusted any government position.
• The method we use to reference Democracy's role in our government, would be similar to a Nuclear Reactor. Where Democracy serves as the deadly fuel rods, (Separation of Powers) used to power our government, which like the reactor it must be controlled (Vote), and contained and shielded. Our Constitution shields us all from it, and our Republic protects the minority from the majority.
• If not for the Republic, 50.1% could dictate their rights and beliefs upon the remaining 49.9%. They could vote to take your property, your business, your money (taxes). They could even vote to enslave you by passing laws that make your beliefs or actions criminal just because they conflict with theirs. The latter reference deserves explanation.
• If taught the 13th Amendment abolished slavery; you have been misled like the majority. Although the word abolished appears in every historical reference, the one place the word does not appear is in the 13th Amendment. What the 13th Amendment states, is who cannot enslave another, and who can and by what means. Which is the Federal & to a controlled degree State government, with the word slave replaced with that of criminal.
• The half-life of a Democracy mimics the half-life of radiation, once the the first half is repressed, the process begins again halving until there is a very few elite that dictates to all. Like a reactor, there is always the threat of a meltdown, so the ruling elite seek to cool the heat of anger by deflecting it away from themselves. They accomplish this by pitting the oppressed against one another. The methods that they use to accomplish this have been historically consistent. The principle methods are Race (racism), Theology (religious ideology), and Social Ideology (Left & Right...Conservatives & Liberals), Cultural Ideology (Ethnicity), Political Ideology (Democrats v Republican), Economic Leverage (monetary entitlements i.e. Welfare, Free Health Care etc.). Last, but not least Wars.
• When the majority of these exist, the form of government is an Oligarchy, which is our current form of government. As defined in our Constitution, this is an illegitimate government. The only thing an Oligarchy fears is a large cross section of the oppressed uniting under a common cause. They will always do or say anything to divide their ranks, and utilize whatever means to discourage others from uniting with the cause, welcome to 2010.
• The United States government is a Republic, or more specifically, a federal constitutional republic.

• Reduced to its essence the United States is a federal republic, a federation of states with a republican form of government, i.e., a representative democracy, where the citizens elect their representatives for fixed terms of office.

• The Constitution of the United States, Article IV, § 4 provides: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government...." The requirement that the Constitution contain a provision guaranteeing a republican form of government seems to have been driven by Madison. Thus, it is appropriate to turn to his definition of a republican form of government in The Federalist Papers, no. 39, 250--53 (January 16, 1788). There, he writes that "we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people; and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited period, or during good behaviour."
• A familiar contrast is often made between a republican and a democratic form of government based on the latter's being a direct wielding of power by the people with unrestricted majority rule, and the former's being a government by representatives elected by the people with restrictions on the power of the majority. It should be noted that the requirement of restrictions on the power of the majority are not contained in Madison's definition. The restrictions on the power of the majority are, instead, contained in the Bill of Rights. Thus, whichever definition one adopts, the United Stated has a republican form of government.
• Federal or Presidential.
• Democratic Republic
• The United States of America is a republic. A republic is a form of government in which there are laws that limit the powers of government.
• The United States is NOT a democracy. A democracy is where the majority rules. This is often without regard for the rights of the minority.
• For example. If the United States were a democracy, the majority of people could decide that they do not like a particular religion, and outlaw its practice. However, since we are a republic, with limits on the powers of government over religion (amongst other things) the minority (those practicing that religion in this example) are protected from the whims of the majority.
• Comments to the above: One web-site stated that since word Democracy is not in the Constitution, the U.S. can't have a "democracy form of government," or even a "representative democracy" so it's a republic form. Since word Republic is not in the Constitution, the same reasoning should apply, and it's not a representative republic . When the Convention was called to amend the Articles for the first national government, it was decided "to form a more perfect Union"---from a Union of State Legislatures to a intimate Union, which allows the people to handle nearly all ares of activities and affairs through The Means of the Free Public Sector, home of the Free Society in conjunction with The Means of the Free Business Sector,, home of Free Enterprise. The Convention selected the Virginia Plan, a three-branch republican form of government, and went one step further and had the Constitution guarantee the same form in all States. The founders/framers provided the prerequisites and elements of this form of government. This and other factual truths, which can derail and destroy more than three dozens lies about the Government, its Constitution and first declaratory/restrictive and other amendments---more than 30 being created since the 1950's.
• USA's government today is the democratic government.

The following is what the founding fathers wrote in the US Constitution and believed:

Article IV Section 4

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this 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.

Thomas Jefferson said, "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."

Thomas Jefferson, March 11, 1790: "The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."

Alexander Hamilton, in debate, said: "Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate government."

Alexander Hamilton, in Senate: "It has been observed that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies, in which the people themselves deliberated, never possessed one feature of good government. Their very character was tyranny: their figure deformity."

John Adams, in a letter to John Taylor, wrote: "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

James Madison said: "...democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

Answer 3

A democratic republic in which voters elect representatives to the bicameral legislative branch which do the every day bidding of government. There are 100 Senators and 435 members of the House of Representatives. The voters can also vote for but not necessarily elect the executive branch - the President and Vice President, who are actually elected by the electoral college. The President can appoint Supreme Court Justices and Judges to other lower Federal Courts. Supreme Court Justices receive a lifetime appointment.

Answer 4

The United States is a PRESIDENTIAL REPUBLIC which is a form of INDIRECT DEMOCRACY. Presidential Republics, which include the United States and large parts of Latin America, are governments where all citizens over a certain age can vote for political parties that sit in Congress as well as voting for a President who is the chief executive. In Presidential Republics, there is a clear delineation between the legislative and executive branches.

Answer 5

The U.S. government is a constitutional republic.

Answer 6

Capitalist, what you earn you make. Also a Democracy, people's choice.

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Answer 7

We live under a democracy. A democracy is a type of government ruled by the people.

Answer 8

The United States is a Constitutional Republic. It never was a democracy, this is spoken of many times in the Federalist Papers.

Answer 9

The U.S. Government is a constitutionally-based, democratic republic.

Answer 10

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