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brought to you by the parliamentary system The driving on

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the left side of the road way of doing things

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That all right all the following Our differences between the

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parliamentary system and the presidential system of government created by

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the constitution Except what following our differences and hear the

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potential answers Part of our legislature president had state system

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All right well here we go The founding fathers had

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many models for building a new government None of which

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was more front of mind than the specs for the

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british parliament system That just our glasses Jeeves It's time

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for a little afternoon analysis is a major difference between

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the parliamentary and presidential systems of government Eh that parliamentary

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systems require less separation of powers Let's Imagine that no

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one in our house got the final say Our parents

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or siblings and us each played a different role in

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making the house function that's Essentially what separation of powers

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does for a government It distributes power in parliamentary systems

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The executive and legislative branches are fused together Whereas the

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presidential system under the us constitution keeps the two divided

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That gives us the power to separate a from the

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rest What's out is a major difference between the parliamentary

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and presidential systems Be that in the parliamentary systems the

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leaders of the executive branch are also members of the

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legislature Well in parliamentary systems members of the executive branch

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like these guys the prime minister and his or her

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cabinet are also members of parliament which is just british

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for legislature Got it Talk about doing your governmental Double

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duty chaps is a major difference between the two systems

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See that executives and parliamentary systems are almost always guaranteed

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a governing majority in the legislature while residents are not

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well in the uk prime ministers always have the majority

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support from their legislatures Where is the u s President's

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Frequently face a congress that's controlled by the opposing party

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so they kind of get nothing done Maybe they could

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have a little tea and work things out We'd hope

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if they don't What about d In parliamentary systems The

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head of government is not the head of state Yeah

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That's right Parliamentary systems have a prime minister and he

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or she is the head of government Someone else like

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a monarch in the uk serves as the head of

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state which is more like the celebrity sponsor of the

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government's brand in presidential systems The president serves both of

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those roles which means that the main difference between parliamentary

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systems and presidential systems is not e that parliamentary systems

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are subject to greater gridlock than presidential systems under a

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parliamentary system It's Impossible for different parties to control the

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executive and legislative branches Which means that there's generally less

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partisan gridlock in the u s presidential system which can

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have different parties controlling those two branches You can count

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on frequent legislative traffic jams The option is the right

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answer No these two systems of government are quite different

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They share one similarity Members of the legislative branch who

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love hearing the sounds of their own voice and freedom

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