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A proper definition for democracy is a form of government organized in accordance with the principles of popular soverngnity, political equality, popular consultation, and majority rule. There are two modern liberal democracies in the world in every country, parliamentary systems and the presidential system. In most parts of the Western world, in such countries as Great Britain and the Neverthalands use the parliamentary system. In the Eastern parts of the world, in such countries as the United States, use the presidential system. The most well organized system that is better for democracy is the presidential system, because of its advantages, especially the separation of powers along with how well it works in the different parts of the world. It will be shown how the presidential system works in the parts of the world, how the parliamentary systems works in the parts of the world, the disadvantages and advantages of each, and why the presidential system is better for democracy.
The book defines the parliamentary system as the government worked with the fusion of powers principles, which is the “concentration of all policy-making power in the legislative.” This statement just means that all of law making bodies work together to make the laws of the land. In the parliamentary system, the legislative does more than just make the laws, but they choose among its members in the cabinet to express and exercise the executive powers is by a cabinet and its members are mostly legislative and are chosen by and are responsible for the legislature. Also in this system there are indeterminate terms of office meaning that the members in the executive cabinet have no set limit to serve a term in the legislative. For example, a member of the parliament can serve in the legislative until they decide to leave or if they die for any reason. Also there are some other characteristics to this system. First, there are more than one or two political parties. Many times this is an example of a coalition government, which is defined by the book as, “the arrangements in which the government is managed by an alliance of two or more separate parties each of which has members in the top ministerial post.” For example, in a parliamentary party system the different parties may work in the legislature to get things done. This is an advantage of having this system apart of the government because this system may be more fractionalized and works together. This method does not always work because there should be some differences and less fractionization for a government to have different views and establish a government.
In a parliamentary system, there are too many different figures in the representational government such as Head of State and Head of Government, which is the prime minister and could have crossed up powers. For example, depending on the person [next page]