

The federal government is divided into three branches, as per the specific terms articulated in the U.S. 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. See also: United States federal executive departments, United States Congress, and Federal judiciary of the United States


Officials are popularly elected at the federal, state and local levels, with the major exception being the President, who is instead elected indirectly by the people through the Electoral College. Local governments also include individual municipalities, townships, school districts, and special districts. At the local level, the states are further divided into counties or county-equivalents, whose specific governmental powers vary widely between the states. The constitutions of the various states differ in some details but generally follow a pattern similar to that of the federal Constitution. Each state also has three branches: an executive branch headed by a Governor, a legislative body, and judicial branch. And the Judiciary branch forms the third branch, composed of the Supreme Court and lower federal courts, and exercises judicial power.Įach of the 50 individual state governments have the power to make laws within their jurisdictions that are not granted to the federal government nor denied to the states in the U.S. The executive branch is headed by the President of the United States, who serves as country's head of state and head of government.

Congress forms the legislative branch, a bicameral legislative body comprising the House of Representatives and the Senate. Constitution, the federal government is the national government of the country, composed of three distinct branches that share powers. The politics of the United States function within a framework of a constitutional federal republic and presidential system, with various levels and branches of power. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives Kamala Harris, Vice President & President of the Senate Added translation for tr.Federal presidential constitutional republic Added translation for vi.įile uploaded using svgtranslate tool (). Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.įile uploaded using svgtranslate tool ().
