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One advantage of decentralized power in a federal system is that it a. provides Congress with more power than the president. b. leads to more coherent and unified ethnic and national identities. c. is a natural check on the power of the federal government. d. makes legislation easier to pass.
Unitary state, a system of political organization in which most or all of the governing power resides in a centralized government. In a unitary state, the central government commonly delegates authority to subnational units and channels policy decisions down to them for implementation.
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- Unitary States vs. Authoritarian States
- Pros and Cons of Unitary States
Of the 193 member countries of the United Nations, 165 are unitary states. The United Kingdom and France are two well-recognized examples.
The opposite of a unitary state is a federation. A federation is a constitutionally organized union or alliance of partially self-governing states or other regions under a central federal government. Unlike the largely powerless local governments in a unitary state, the states of a federation enjoy some degree of independence in their internal affa...
Unitary states should not be confused with authoritarian states. In an authoritarian state, all governing and political power is vested in a single individual leader or a small, elite group of individuals. The leader or leaders of an authoritarian state are not chosen by the people, nor are they constitutionally responsible to the people. Authorita...
The unitary state is the most common form of government in the world. This system of government has its benefits, but as with all schemes of dividing power between the government and the people, it also has drawbacks.
- Robert Longley
The United States, Canada, and Germany are just some examples of modern federalist systems. A confederation has a weak central authority that derives all its powers from the state or provincial governments.
The first and more common mechanism shares power among three branches of government—the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary. The second, federalism, apportions power between two levels of government: national and subnational.
A unitary government is a type of government in which all power is centralized in the hands of a single ruler. In the unitary system of government, a single central government possesses total control over all political subdivisions.
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An example of a unitary system is France. The framers of the U.S. Constitution sought to create a federal system that promotes strong national power in certain spheres, yet recognizes that the states are sovereign in other spheres.
