American Political Regime Analysis

Reflection and Call to Action To truly understand my “mental story” in its entirety, it is important to look back upon my mentality when I chose to take AP Government and also what I previously knew before my first day of class. Politics was never my subject of choice. When I toured Georgetown and almost chose to pursue it, I convinced myself that the political scene and Washington D.C was not all that interesting to me. However, as the political scene began to somehow consistently appear on nearly every television channel, I decided that government and politics were areas that I might find interest in. As a naïve sophomore, I decided I would dedicate my senior humanities to studying government because I lacked a great amount of knowledge.

From before America was even founded, and throughout her history, a question of what her public policy is or should be has always been in the public eye. And thanks to our constitutional right of the freedom of speech and press, ideas of public policy and American political theory have legally been allowed to circulate and influence the opinion of American citizens. There have been multiple ways of communicating ideas throughout American history, whether that is through pamphlets, essays or speeches—the question of what our American political theory is has progressed throughout history.

The Political System of the USA. The USA is a federal union of 50 states. The basic law is the constitution, adopted in 1787, which prescribes the structure of national government and lists its rights and fields of authority. Each state has its government and all of them have the dual character of both Federal and State government. The political system of the USA is divided into three branches: judicial, legislative and executive. Each branch holds a certain degree of power over the others, and all take part in the governmental process.

Throughout American history there have been changes that have shaped the way we live today. Some of them are small things: for example the way we vote, the way requirements for a citizenship are obtain and other minor things that does not effect every person at any given time. There are also many consistent ways we have lived in America through our history such as: the two party systems and how we are represented have been constant for a long period of time in the United States. None of these things are as important as the end of segregation and our economic structure, capitalism. These two effect the entire country continuously throughout history, no matter who you are our what your beliefs or your political views.

American Political Science In politics as in political science and legal scholarship, the world sometimes seems to be divided into those who think that for the sake of efficiency as well as justice markets must be free from regulation by morals and those who believe that, considerations of efficiency notwithstanding, justice demands that morals govern markets. In his instructive and admirably balanced new book, Cass Sunstein contends that, for all concerned, this is a bad way for the world to be divided. Sunstein sets out to show the superiority of a third view: markets and morals exercise a reciprocal influence on each other, and a respectable political science and a responsible jurisprudence must grasp the complicated relationship between them. In support of his thesis, Sunstein examines a remarkable range of ideas and issues: the ambiguity of preferences; the need to devise empirical measures of human well-being to solve problems of adjudication and public policy that arise in the modern welfare state; the complex origins, the pervasive influence, and the political regulation of social norms; why markets alone cannot put an end to discrimination; free speech issues raised by the Internet; constitution making in Eastern Europe; the relation among property rights, democracy, and constitutionalism; neglected consequences and complicated trade-offs in the regulation of the environment and health; and the project of using the legal system to democratize America.

Now that the debacle of the 2000 Presidential election has passed through the annals of United States politics, Daniel Lazare has decided to open the wound of this three ring circus and analyze this example of dysfunctional democracy. In an excerpt from his book, "The Velvet Coup"(Voices, 102), Lazare argues that the Constitution of the United States is an obsolete document that is in dire need of a reality series makeover.

Holding the title of presidency is a privilege that’s has been passed down by our Founding Fathers and their fight for democracy. By including a public voice to lead our nation, America was able to unite and develop throughout the years, not only separating it from the rest of the world, but allowing a rare opportunity to select a potential and qualify leader to represent our voices. However, the result of the election of 2016 left our country tense and conflicted due to an unexpected candidate, Donald Trump, being selected as President. American journalist, Thomas L. Friedman argues that the results were due to “something incredibly reckless” done by our democratic nation in his article, “Trump’s Approach: A Fresh Start or Crazy Reckless?”

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt of the New York Times raise the valid question,‘Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy?’ As a dismissive character of US intelligence agencies,’ I find that Donald Trump will unforgivingly deny us our democracy not single handily but with the help of cabinet members he has appointed in great positions of institutional power over America. Under the rise of Donald Trump as the 45th president-elect of the United States is the granting of corrupt individuals in charge of operations from judges, Education, Budget Directing, Treasury, The Environmental Protection Agency, and Health and Human Services to name a few. In this response, I will expand on Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s notion making it apparent

Political Analysis Political analysis is the method by which the judgement upon any political event, in any part of the world, is performed. It is based on the perception of the political reality of the region or the country in question and the perception of the relationship of this political reality with international politics. In order to perceive the international situation and international politics, it is imperative to have general outlines that explain the political reality of every state and the relationships of these states with the other states of the world, especially the major powers that influence the progress of events in the world. Since the Islamic Ummah is commanded to carry the Islamic Da'wah to all people, it is therefore obligatory upon the Muslims to be in touch with the world with awareness of its conditions and perception of its problems. The Muslims must acquaint themselves with what motivates the states and the peoples and pursue the political actions that occur in the world.

The American Political System The American political system is a federal system, which consists of