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. At the local level, governments are found in counties or county-equivalents, and beneath them individual municipalities, townships, school districts, and special districts. Each have three branches: an executive branch headed by a governor, a legislative body, and judicial branch.
Each state also has a constitution following the pattern of the federal constitution but differing in details. Congress which forms the legislative branch, a bicameral legislative body comprising the House of Representatives and the Senate the executive branch, which is headed by the president of the United States, who serves as the country's head of state and government and the judicial branch, composed of the Supreme Court and lower federal courts, and which exercises judicial power.Įach of the 50 individual state governments has the power to make laws within its jurisdiction that are not granted to the federal government nor denied to the states in the U.S. In the United States, politics function within a framework of a constitutional federal republic and presidential system, with three distinct branches that share powers: the U.S. Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House of Representatives Kamala Harris, Vice President & President of the Senate
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