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Different people from all different walks of life founded America. Many of these people came to America as now know it, for many reason. One of these reasons being that they felt their government was corrupt, harsh, unfair or just to powerful in there every day lives. So naturally when America created it's government, it was created in such a way, to prevent tyranny, high taxation, and ensure personal freedoms. Author John W. Kingdon feels that the government the founders created is so fragmented and our ideology of individualism and anti-government (small government) is now causing more harms then good. What do you think? Do you feel that the U.S. Government is so separated it has a hard time getting anything done? I do, and in this essay I will support Kingdon's argument by providing information and evidence to show that the U.S. institutions in place today have to high of values on the rights of individual and small government. So let's begin by looking at the differences between U.S. government and the governments of other countries. We first need to look at the institutions of the U.S. and the institutions of other industrialized countries. America institutions believe very heavily in a system of separation of powers. T
Most Americans already knows how the U.S. system of government works, so now lets look at the governments of other representative democracies. Just about all-representative democracies use some version of a parliamentary government. In the traditional parliamentary system, there is no separation of powers. In the U.S. we have a president, in parliamentary government their head of state is called the Prime Minister or premier. The Prime Minister is the leader of the majority in parliament. If one party controls the parliamentary majority, then the leader of that party becomes the Prime Minister. If that were the case in the U.S., Newt Gingrich would be our president. The Prime Minister has no set term limit. The parliament can choose to get rid of the Prime Minister and his cabinet, and the Prime Minister can dissolve parliament and call new elections. There are no real checks and balances in parliamentary government, although more modernized countries like France have started adopting a checks and balances in combination with their parliamentary government. Another thing to point out is fragmentation of U.S. government. U.S. government is fragmented enough by the separation of powers, we then take it a step further by separating power at the national and state level. This makes the coordination of action in the U.S. difficult and lengthy, where as in parliamentary government power is not so divide making coordination action much quicker. There are many things that the U.S. should change. We should incur larger taxes on things like gasoline and energy to conserve its use and to repair the damage that the use of this energy has caused. There is a major problem with the distribution of wealth in the U.S., so wouldn't it be logical for the government to help this wealth distribution by creating programs to lessen the cost of living for the poor by providing housing and health care. And wouldn't also be logical to provide more public transportation to solve problems of traffic and pollution. It's all very logical and ideal, yet we are unwilling to do anything about it because of our ideology and are institutions in place. It seems to me that issues of health care, pollution, social security, welfare and transportation are of major concern of late. People are screaming for these issues to be created and funded, yet we are unwilling to pay for them and government is unwilling to create such huge programs and institutions to solve the problems. Is our ideology so screwed up that we wouldn't trade higher taxes for a better and stronger nation? It is, I don't see the light at the end of the tunnel, just like Kingdon and many other people. We feel that government is unable to work in a way that could solve our nations top conc
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Approximate Word count = 1850
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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