government structure
State organizational system
Government structure is how political power is organized and distributed within a state—the arrangement of institutions, branches, and levels of authority.
Discussions of government structure address questions like separation of powers, federalism versus unitary systems, and the relationship between executive, legislative, and judicial functions: The country's government structure prevents any single branch from dominating.
- legislatureLawmaking governmental branch
- democracyRule by the people
- separation of powersConstitutional distribution of authority
- feudal systemsLand-based medieval governance
- rule of lawSupremacy of established laws
monarchy · bureaucracy · civil service · federal system · accountability · executive · head of state · confederation · subsidiarity · power sharing · constitution · public administration · republic · voting rights · checks and balances · balance of power · oligarchy · judiciary
- constitutional lawConstitution, Bill of Rights, First Amendment, Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment
- Micronationsmicronation, principality, Celestia
government structureanarchy
Disorder from absent authority
chaos · statelessness · lawlessness · disorder · political vacuum
government structureoral tradition
Culture passed by speech
unwritten rules · spontaneous order · grassroots organization · social convention · mob rule
government structurepersonal autonomy
Control over one's choices
self-governance · decentralization · voluntary association · free association
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