Is there a difference between one's government and one's country?
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The type of government can change in a country, depending on who is governing/presiding/leading it.
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I guess you never heard of "love your country, not your government?"\n\nGovernment is a necessary evil, and as far as I am concerned, any 'love' for government is misguided. US citizens, I would hope, should not be blindly supporting our government without understanding the policies set in place by government. It's what I would characterize as a responsibility of US citizens. \n\nI love my country not because of government, but because we can question the policies set by government without fear of jail or death. It's a nice position to be in. Our Constitution limits our government from interfering with these freedoms.\n\nSo, no love for government, only love for country.
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I know the difference.\n\nI've never voted on any national legislation. The people who represented me in the House and the Senate voted for the legislation, not me.\n\nOn the state level, my state was some of both a democracy and a republic. Most legislative proposals were voted on the people who represented me in the state legislature and on the local boards/councils. But on the state level I sometimes voted myself on proposed laws.\n\nI personally don't care whether or not you call it "democracy" or "republic." We aren't, in fact, the kind of government we call ourselves. We call ourselves, interchangably, a "democracy" or a "republic" but we are, in fact, neither one. We are a judicial oligarchy. The U.S. Supreme Court steals power that doesn't belong to them. They pretend that they are objectively interpretting the U.S. Constitution, when what they are truly doing is sheer sophistry.
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local government is the government in your state/town.\nfederal government runs the country where you live
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In Great Briton the Head of State is the Queen.  The Head of Government is the Prime Minister.\n\nThe Head of State can be more of a ceremonial post while the Head of Governmentis the person in charge.  In some countries the Head of State and the Head of the Government are the same person.
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No, they are not the same. The first one is grammatically incorrect & should not be used. The second is grammatically correct & is used in the context of the comparison e.g "Isn't there the same problem in the English government as in the American government, in regards to international trade?"
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Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle merite.\n\n"Every nation has the government that it deserves."\n\n(Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821), in a letter on the subject of Russia (Lettres et Opuscules Inedits)[15 Aug. 1811])\n\nThere are many countries with a fraction of the natural beauty and human resources of the Philippines that have a far better standard of living.\n\nThe people vote for the government, they tolerate the wholesale corruption in society .. who else is to blame??
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technically, there is only one "United States" but you are right in that there are several countries with translations equating. Most, however, are "the United State of..." Any country in itself can be called a state, and thus would be a United State.
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Our government is a Republic, which in the U.S. is a representative Democracy.  We elect our Congressional delegates, our representatives, to pass laws by which we will govern ourselves.
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Yes it's only a slight difference... In Asia communism is the chief underlying political movement... In the US, socialism is the primary force guiding the leftist - moving government we have had now for over 12 years.
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The government is all about rules. Sometimes what you think is best for you or for anyone else doesn't follow the government's rules. Plus, the government has layers and layers of bureaucracy. Trying to get any meaningful change through all of that is very difficult.
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Government is a system of social control under which the right to make laws, and the right to enforce them, is vested in a particular group in society. \n\nGovernments are distinguished by whether power is held by one man, a few, or a majority. Today, it is common to distinguish between types of government on the basis of institutional organization and the degree of control exercised over the society.\n\nOrganizationally, governments may be classified into parliamentary or presidential systems, depending on the relationship between executive and legislature. Government may also be classified according to the distribution of power at different levels. \n\nThe basic law determining the form of government is called the constitution and may be written, as in the United States, or largely unwritten, as in Great Britain. Modern governments perform many functions besides the traditional ones of providing internal and external security, order, and justice; most are involved in providing welfare services, regulating the economy, and establishing educational systems. The extreme case of governmental regulation of every aspect of people's lives is totalitarianism.
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All that stuff is because of their constitutions or whatever piece of writing they use as their basis for government. In our case, we have the U.S. Constitution. It dictates when presidents are elected and how they are elected and the length of their terms. I would imagine that all countries have something similar to that for their reasoning. Their founding fathers, or at least the one's who redrafted their constitutions, are the ones who decide what it should be.
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The U.S has a constitutional government and operates as a representative democracy through a congressional system under a set of powers specified by its Constitution.\n\nCanada is a constitutional monarchy with Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada as head of state, and a parliamentary democracy with a federal system of parliamentary government and strong democratic traditions.
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geo - geography\npolitical - politics\nstate - government.\n\nThis question is referring to the "boundaries" people invision, with regard to the way the 'place' is governed.\n\nEg: local government as opposed to state government, as opposed to the senate (or however it works in your country)\n\n\nyou can think of it as:\n\nHow has your country divided itself up into workable political units.....\nThe boundaries are dynamic - they can change, furthermore, they do not exist physically, they are a social construction used to govern the society.
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A country is a self-governing political entity while a nation is a tightly-knit group of people which share a common culture.
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the goverment brainwashes you whats the difference?