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AMERICAN POLITICS
The Congress - legislative powers
The President - executive powers
The Supreme Court - judicial powers
The Democratic Party
The Republican Party
The Preamble
The writers of the Constitution decided to break up the powers. They desided to have a representative democracy; where the power rested with the people. Secound they decided to have a federal system; this gave the individual states power, so that the government diden't have all the power. At the end, they devided the federal government in three branches. They keep track over each other, so that no one of them can become too powerful.
The American Congress consists of two “chambers”; the House of Representatives and the Senate. The reason behind this compromise, was that the smaller states were afraid of being controlled by the larger states. The number of representatives each state got in the House of Representatives was based on the population in that state. In the Senate each state was given two representatives no matter its size. That way, the smaller states could defend their interests. Members of the House of Representatives are called Congressmen, and today there are 435 members. Members of the Senate are called Senators. There are 100 members, two from each of the 50 states. The President is chosen every four years by national election. The President has great, but not unlimited, powers. The President is: Head of State, Chief Executive, Commander-in-chief and Chief Diplomat.
-Willing to use government in the service of people. -Involving the government to see it everyone have their civil rights and reducing gap between rich and poor. -Supports welfare programs, and doesn’t like the every-man-for-himself philosophy -Believe that taxes can be used for the good of general public. -Have support in large cities and states, along the east and west coasts, among working class and minorities.
-Supports “states’ rights”. A conservative party. -In favor of giving a great deal of free play to market economics, for government regulation of the economy. -They support a lower level of taxation and federal spending than the Democrats, except on defense. -Suspicious of social welfare, they like the every-man-for-himself tradition. -They have support in the suburbs of large cities, “heartland” states of the Midwest and the South and among businesspeople.
poster yourself
The Preamble to the United States Constitution is a brief introductory statement of the fundamental purposes and guiding principles that the Constitution is meant to serve.
