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In reply to the discussion: I'm generally okay with the efforts of 'Anonymous' but this is anti-Democratic [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)which is inherently more democratic. There is a good reason why no other country has adopted the American system of government. In a parliamentary system, the party or coalition of government is that which has the most seats in the lower house of the legislature (the House of Commons or equivalent). The American system is inherently undemocratic in much of its execution, in contrast; a president may be elected with a minority of the popular vote, and thanks to the excessive power of the Senate, a party which represents states accounting for a minority of the population may hamstring legislative action; also, an American president is more or less an elected constitutional monarch (only with much more actual power than most constitutional monarchs).