The United States And The Government System

The United States government system is very interesting and complexly designed. The state and federal government is a mirror of each other when it comes to the generics of the executive branch, legislative branch, and judicial branch, however, internally the state government has major differences on how the branches are conducted. Throughout this paper we will discuss the greatest difference between state and federal, which is the state cannot change or remove laws passed by the federal government but they could change how they execute the federal laws to their liking as long as it is constitutional.

The structure of our American Government was founded in the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution was written to be the “supreme law of the land,” and produces a democratic republic, where citizens govern themselves (Our American Government, n.d). The purpose of our government, is to “establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity” (Our American Government, n.d.). For our country to accomplish this purpose our Founding Fathers created three principles, “inherent rights, self-government, and separation of powers” (Our American Government, n.d.). The government was developed to ensure order in society and protect its citizens, but with all systems, there is strengths and weakness, let’s examine those strengths and weakness. Let’s first look at the strength and weakness of the U.S. Constitution.

Elissa Nunez of NBC News reports that 64% of Americans believe that the big money in politics discourages many great candidates from running (Nunez). On top of this number, 76% of people believe that "money has a greater influence on politics and elected officials today than in the past," (Nunez). These numbers lead to a fundamental issue in our government; a huge distrust in our federal government. Only a month after 9/11, 60% of citizens said they could trust the federal government, however, following the Iraq war and an economic downturn the number dropped to a mere 24% in 2007

The Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia (1967) resulted in the striking down of state laws that prohibited whites and African Americans from marrying. Mildred Loving, one of the parties in the case, issued a statement on the fortieth-anniversary of her case in which she urged that same-sex couples be allowed to marry.

I believe the five pathways for change were put here to guide us in becoming a more efficient government and to give different examples of how to go about change in America. All of the pathways are important but to me the most important is the lobbying decision makers’ pathway. “Lobbyists are said to be advocates, someone who represents a specific side of an issue. According to Thomson Gale Legal Encyclopedia, A lobbyist and a lawyer have similar attributes whereas the lobbyist targets the legislative point of view and the lawyer targets the judicial point of view. Lawyers provide facts on different perspectives on legal issues dealing with the case; And lobbyist offer local, state, and federal

     Secondly, trusting our government and its leaders is another problem facing American in the 21st century. In “The Circle of Governments” Niccolo Machiavelli states, “As the human race increased, the necessity for uniting themselves for defense made itself felt; the better to attain this object they chose the strongest and most courageous from amongst themselves and placed him at their head promising to obey him.”(230). I take this statement to mean that ever since the beginning of time we have

Even though political trust downturn fluctuates overtime due to tremendous factors, the greater scope on time span can show the gradual decline. Because of this fact, Dalton (2009) believes that the government has become less trustworthy among the public. To address the initial problems, according to Dalton (2009), other researchers generally points out the three problems: the set of scandals and various legislative process, the media and the democracy itself . Nevertheless, Dalton (2009) argues that the consistency between the decline in political trust and the explanations from the other researchers is not relevant.

I began to mistrust government when politicians increasingly began to lie to get elected with a positive agenda that would help support the community and nation, but when in office they never fulfilled their promises in which they campaigned on such as, New York’s senator Tim Bishop using funds provided by prominent hedge fund investors to personally influence their agendas once they would provide money to his campaign. Compared to the public in 2010, I can poll my mistrust in government at roughly seventy-five percent which matches the public view of government at the time when stated they only trusted the government only some of the

This trust paper explores the 2013 United States Federal Government shutdown incident along with the trust theory as it relates to this issue. The more recent shutdown was contributed to the split party lines and Congress resisting to pass a budget with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in place. Trust between government and constituents have been a long struggle as public servants work to build trust after an issue like the Federal Government shutdown occurs. The research provided in the paper analyzes theories on the reasons for the lack of trust and how public servants can build trust. Not only does trust involve the political environment

Throughout history, the American people have had a hard time instilling trust in their government and political leaders. Between the numerous scandals involving United States presidents and other political leaders and the dozens of conspiracy theories encompassing the United States government, it is no wonder why the American people have lost trust in their government, and why the United States has become the laughing stock of foreign countries. The 2016 presidential election was arguably the most controversial election in American history; many voters felt that neither of the candidates could be trusted due to their questionable actions. Numerous Americans were outraged when current U.S. president, Donald J. Trump, was sworn into office; due

The government of the United States would not be able to function without the various structures and fundamentals that were created in the country’s early establishment and history. The Founding Fathers, along with the many other strong leaders who led the country’s development, created a strong and secure system of government that made the United States the powerful and functional nation that it is today through their meticulous and detailed work in the United States’ Constitution. The strong foundation of government that the U.S. has created would not be possible and would not have been able to last the past 239 years without its unique ability to control and distribute power to different branches of government. The specific make-up, function,

An important relationship exists between confidence in government and social trust which can be linked to public goods provision (Newton & Norris, Confidence in Public Institutions: Faith, Culture or Performance?, 1999). Social trust is broadly defined as trusting in others and can refer to both individuals and higher levels of analysis. Netwon & Norris found that social trust is not strongly associated with measure of public confidence at the individual level and personality types or cultural factors may be more significant at this level. However, at the national level there is a significant relationship between social trust and public confidence. The relationship is that social trust and high public confidence are highly

1965: The year we lost our trust in government is a newspaper editorial written by Bill Bishop. This article talks about how not just the people of the United States have lost a great amount of trust in their government, but how all industrialized countries have lost trust in their government. Bill Bishop has written various other articles and editorials like In elections, self-identity wins over issues. He has also been mentioned in other articles as a good investigative story writer. One of these articles includes Capitol Chronicle.

Could “ordinary Americans” accomplish a better a job of solving national problems than government officials? Study polls show that over the course of years the trust that Americans had in the government has slowly diminished. This change is the government’s fault. Someone doesn’t want to install their trust in somebody else who is not truthful. Americans should not trust government officials because they are not always truthful, treat citizens like criminals, and they are not doing anything that truly make America “better”.

The American system of government is democratic. Democracy is a form of government in which people choose leaders by voting. In America, elections are held at the local, state, and federal levels. In elections, voters choose from one of several candidates from various political parties for open office positions. The United States has two major political parties: Democrat and Republican. There are more political parties, but with the way the electoral process works, most third parties will not succeed, since they will not get sufficient popular vote. However, for the office of President and Vice President, the popular vote does not determine the President and Vice President the Electoral College does. Many eligible voters have decided to “protest vote,” meaning not voting at all or voting third party, because these voters value voting for a candidate who most aligns with their beliefs rather than voting for a candidate that is likely to be elected. Protest voting is a controversial action, with positive and negative aspects, but it does affect the outcome of the election. This is because major parties care about what third-party voters think and may change their platforms accordingly. Protest voting is a significant liberty that Americans can use to express their democratic right.