Presidential form of government
- Date: July 11, 2005
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Presidential form of Government
NATURE OF THE SYSTEM:
Presidential form of government , is a government in which the chief executive is not responsible to the legislature. Bagehot, " the independence of the legislative and the executive powers is the specific quality of presidential government just as fusion and combination is the principle of cabinet government". If we compare cabinet and presidential systems , we can find that they are both representative in character, but in cabinet system the executive is a part of legislature and responsibility of executive
to legislature is sine quo non . In presidential form of government the executive, i.e., PRESIDENT is constitutionally independent of legislature. They are two distinct organs more or less separated ...
... best his personal team of advisers . It has been characterized as the 'president' s family, and the head of the family , the president , inevitably dominates them. Ogg rightly describes him as the , "greatest ruler of the world". According to Henry he exercises , " the largest amount of authority ever and as wielded by any man in democracy". This system is called PRESIDENTIAL SYSYEM OF GOVERNMENT.
The American President in respect of his powers is best compared to the Prime minister of the parliamentary democracies enjoying the support of a stable majority in the legislature, he is rather head of the state and the responsible head of
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