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  1. The U.S. federal government, sometimes simply referred to as "Washington", is composed of three distinct branches: legislative, executive, and judicial, whose powers are vested by the U.S. Constitution in the Congress, the president, and the federal courts, respectively. [2]

  2. Capitol. v. t. e. The federal government of the United States has three branches of government: the legislature, executive, and judiciary, as established in the United States Constitution. When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they wanted to make sure that their new government would not have any of the problems that the colonial ...

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  4. The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, and an upper body, the Senate.

  5. In the United States, federalism is the constitutional division of power between U.S. state governments and the federal government of the United States. Since the founding of the country, and particularly with the end of the American Civil War, power shifted away from the states and toward the national government.

  6. The United States is a federal constitutional republic, in which the President of the United States (the head of state and head of government ), Congress, and judiciary share powers reserved to the national government, and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments. [1]

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