The document provides an overview of the American and Italian political systems. It describes how in the United States, power is separated into the legislative, executive, and judicial branches according to the Constitution. The President is both head of state and head of the executive branch. In Italy, the political system is based on representative democracy and separation of powers between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The President represents national unity while the government executes laws passed by Parliament.

2. AMERICAN POLITICAL
SYSTEM
The United States of America is
a federal union of 50 states and
a small area of federal territory,
the District of Columbia.
Washington is the federal
capital, in which public
functions are developed on two
levels, federal and governative.
The competences of the federal
and governative functions are
established by the
Constitution.

3. SEPARATION OF POWERS
- Legislative
- Executive
- Judicial

4. LEGISLATIVE POWER
Legislative power is exercised through the
Congress, composed by two Houses: House of the
Representatives (435 members) and Senate (100
members, 2 for every state).

5. EXECUTIVE POWER
THE PRESIDENT
The President of United States is
the head of State and the head of
executive, he has broad powers to
manage national affairs and to
carry out programs enacted into
law by Congress (House of the
Representatives and the Senate).
The anticipated requisite from the
Constitution to be able to run as
President are three: to have
completed 35 years of age, to be
city American for birth, to have
been residing in USA for 14 years.
BARACK OBAMA

6. The right of vote is up to all the citizens that have
completed the 18 years of age and that they are enrolled in
the electoral lists. The electoral system is indirect. The
President is not elected from the citizens but by538 'great
electors' reunited to Washington. The candidate that has
more votes, also only one in more in comparison to the
other contenders, picks up all the great electors of that
state. They make exception the State of
the Maine and Nebraska, I
divided in the
constituencies with
proportional system. The
official residence of the
President of the United
States is the White
House.

7. JUDICIAL POWER
Judicial power is exercised by a system of
courts, the tallest is the Supreme court, the only
court specifically disciplined by the Constitution,
the judges are appointed for life. The other
federal Courts are the Districts of the federal
courts and the Courts of Appeal.

8. ITALIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM
The political system of the Italian Republic is based on a
representative democracy in the form of parliamentary
republic. The Italian political system is organized
according to the principle of separation of the powers:
legislative power is attributed to the Parliament, to the
government executive power is up to, while the
magistracy, independent from the executive and from the
legislative power, manages the judicial power with the
president of the Republic that is the maximum position of
the State and it represents the unity of it. The
fundamental law of the Republic Italian form the
Constitution; a harvest of all the laws which points out
the fundamental principles of the Republic, the rights and
the duties of the citizens and it fixes the arrangement of
the Republic.

9. SEPARATION OF POWER
- Legislative
- Esecutive
- Judicial

10. LEGISLATIVE POWER
Legislative power consists in the emanation of the
laws. Art. 70 of the Constitution, divides the Parliament
in two Houses: the Houses of the deputies and the
Senate of the Republic.

11. THE PRESIDENT
All the laws, in last appeal,
must be promulgated by the President
of the Republic who can postpone a
law to the Parliament if he believes that
this is in contrast with the Constitution
(right of veto), but exclusively for the
first time. Also the Government can
emanate an action having strength of
law (called decree law), but this must
subsequently be confirms from the
Parliament, otherwise there will be the
decadence
of the decree.
SERGIO
MATTARELL
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12. EXECUTIVE POWER
In Italy the Government manages the executive power and
has therefore the assignment to make to get the laws
effective. To develop this assignment and to do therefore
to work the whole car of the State, the Government directs
all the activities of the administration of the State. The
principal responsibilities of the Government are: the
legislative initiative, through the elaboration of proposals
and decrees; the command and the control of the military
apparatus in all of his/her articulations; the politics of
budget and financial, through the elaboration of different
documents that you/they define the financial situation of
the State, the entrances, the exits, the expenses and the
investments.

13. JUDICIAL POWER
Judicial power allows in by definitive and
autonomous to resolve a controversy of civil
nature, penal and administrative applying the
law. This power is submitted to the judges that
form the Magistracy. In a democratic State the
law is equal for everybody and the judge must
use the laws and not to judge according to the
personal opinion. The Magistracy is an
independent organ that doesn't depend on the
Office of the Justice but is self-governing
through the Superior Council of the
Magistracy, that is presided by the President of
the Republic.

14. Bonanni Gaia
Borbone Alessia
De Luca
Veronica
Paoletti Laura
Rencricca
Giorgia
Salvati Elisa
Viteri Jasmine
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