Examples of legislative power in the following topics:
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- The United States is a federal constitutional republic in which the President of the United States (the head of state and government), Congress, and judiciary share powers reserved to the national government, and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments.
- Legislative power is vested in the two chambers of Congress, the Senate and the House of Representatives.
- The judicial branch, composed of the Supreme Court and lower federal courts, exercises judicial power.
- This includes resolving disputes between the executive and legislative branches.
- Business organizations will favor low corporate taxes and restrictions of the right to strike, whereas labor unions will support minimum wage legislation and protection for collective bargaining.
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- The U.S. federal government is composed of three distinct branches—legislative, executive, and judicial—whose powers are vested by the U.S.
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- For example, at the local level, citizens elect mayors; at the state level, they elect governors and state legislators; and at the national level, they elect the president, representatives, and senators.
- Democracy is a form of government in which the power of government comes from the people.
- Many also institute measures such as the separation of powers, which divides executive, judicial, and legislative authority among different branches of government to protect against the possibility that a single government or branch of government could accumulate too much power and become harmful to democracy itself.
- Green, yellow, and blue are presidential republics with less (green) or more (blue) presidential power.
- Red are parliamentary constitutional monarchies in which the monarch does not personally exercise power.
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- States vary based on who holds power, who elects the empowered, and how authority is maintained.
- One way to classify these governments is by looking at how leaders gain power.
- Some monarchs hold unlimited political power while many constitutional monarchies, such as the United Kingdom and Thailand, have monarchs with limited political power.
- An oligarchy does not have one clear ruler, but several powerful people who rule.
- However, if any democracy is not carefully legislated with balances, such as the separation of powers, to avoid an uneven distribution of political power, then a branch of the system of rule could accumulate power and become harmful to the democracy itself.
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- In addition to there existing various legitimate means of holding power, there are a variety of forms of government.
- A monarchy is a form of government in which supreme power is absolutely or nominally lodged with an individual, who is the head of state, often for life or until abdication.
- Holding unlimited political power in the state is not the defining characteristic, as many constitutional monarchies such as the United Kingdom and Thailand are considered monarchies yet their monarchs have limited political power.
- However, if any democracy is not carefully legislated to avoid an uneven distribution of political power with balances, such as the separation of powers, then a branch of the system of rule could accumulate power and become harmful to the democracy itself.
- Such states are often controlled by politically powerful families whose children are heavily conditioned and mentored to be heirs of the power of the oligarchy.
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- There are multiple lines of power that shift as power is a continuous bargaining process between competing groups.
- Any change under this view will be slow and incremental—groups have different interests and may act as "veto groups" to destroy legislation that they do not agree with.
- This power is independent of a state's democratic elections process.
- Social class analysis emphasizes the political power of capitalist elites.
- Politics is a decision making process, which often takes place in legislative bodies such as the U.S.
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- Different forms of authority transfer power in different ways.
- In traditional authority, power is usually passed on through a family line.
- In rational-legal authority, power is passed on according to a set of rules.
- In the United States, for example, presidential power is passed on through elections.
- First, an administrative and legal order that has been created and can be changed by legislation that also determines its role.
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- In social science and politics, power is the ability to influence the behavior of people.
- Power can be seen as evil or unjust, but the exercise of power is accepted as endemic to (or regularly found in) humans as social beings.
- Because power operates both relationally and reciprocally, sociologists speak of the balance of power between people in a relationship.
- Given that power is not innate and can be granted to others, to acquire power you must possess or control a form of power currency (such as wealth, social status, authority, etc.).
- They can also be established through discriminatory legislation.
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- Labor unions provide members with the power of collective bargaining over and fight for workers rights.
- Both advocate policies and legislation on behalf of workers in the United States and Canada, and take an active role in politics.
- To fight employer anti-union programs, unions are currently advocating new "card check" federal legislation that would require employers to bargain with a union if more than 50% of workers signed forms, or "cards," stating they wish to be represented by that union, rather than waiting 45 to 90 days for a federally-supervised a secret ballot election during which time employers can fire, harass and generally make life miserable for pro-union employees.
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- Throughout history, monarchies have been abolished, either through revolutions, legislative reforms, coups d'état or wars.
- Where it exists, it now often takes the form of constitutional monarchy, in which the monarch retains a unique legal and ceremonial role, but exercises limited or no political power pursuant to a constitution or tradition which allocates governing authority elsewhere.
- At the time, the vast majority of European states were monarchies, with political power held either by the monarch or the aristocracy.