In this essay I will compare and contrast the U.S. and the Iranian president’s role in politics. During this essay I will present the distribution of the powers (formal, informal), the Constitutions, outline the elections and the institutional system. During my research I came to realise that the U.S. system is better rated, because its respect for democracy. It also do not has religious limitations and the ‘checks and balances’ system protect the people from a dictator. After being formal British colonies they gained their own independence, they created a government, based on the principle of federalism. There are two levels of government, the power is shared between the federal government and state governments. The United States of America
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Every American citizen can vote above the age of eighteen. The people can only elect the electoral college, not the President itself. Every state has as much electors as the number of its representations and senators together. Not everybody can become the President of the United States or the vice-president. He has to be a natural born citizen, naturalized people can never fill this post. The candidates have to be at least thirty-five years old, and have to live in the United States since at least fourteen years before the election. According to the XXII. Constitution supplement (1951), the President can elected for maximum two full elected terms. According to the political practice, the President during his term is inviolable but like every American officer is accountable if he breaks the Constitution. This is the impeachment. The House of Representatives has the right to make out the case and the process carried out by the Senate as a specific judicial forum. If it is proved that the President is guilty, they unseated him, why he loses the exemption and has to face the consequences at the …show more content…
The Council of Guardians has the power to select the candidates, and the leader has several rights which only the Parliament has in other countries. As we can see Iran has a really complex political system. It is dominated by priests, but to some extent controlled by the people (elections). This is a mixture of Islamic State and a modern state organization.
We can see the differences between the two systems. The U.S. system is based on democracy and the principle of separation of powers, while the Islamic Republic’s Constitution although has democratic features, but primarily based on Islam, thereby providing a multipotent power to the Supreme Leader. The U.S. can not operate without the President but in the Islamic Republic the President has more of a ceremonial role. Because of the differences between the state apparatus, the religion, different foreign policy are have major affect on the relationship of the two countries in the recent
Every American citizen can vote above the age of eighteen. The people can only elect the electoral college, not the President itself. Every state has as much electors as the number of its representations and senators together. Not everybody can become the President of the United States or the vice-president. He has to be a natural born citizen, naturalized people can never fill this post. The candidates have to be at least thirty-five years old, and have to live in the United States since at least fourteen years before the election. According to the XXII. Constitution supplement (1951), the President can elected for maximum two full elected terms. According to the political practice, the President during his term is inviolable but like every American officer is accountable if he breaks the Constitution. This is the impeachment. The House of Representatives has the right to make out the case and the process carried out by the Senate as a specific judicial forum. If it is proved that the President is guilty, they unseated him, why he loses the exemption and has to face the consequences at the …show more content…
The Council of Guardians has the power to select the candidates, and the leader has several rights which only the Parliament has in other countries. As we can see Iran has a really complex political system. It is dominated by priests, but to some extent controlled by the people (elections). This is a mixture of Islamic State and a modern state organization.
We can see the differences between the two systems. The U.S. system is based on democracy and the principle of separation of powers, while the Islamic Republic’s Constitution although has democratic features, but primarily based on Islam, thereby providing a multipotent power to the Supreme Leader. The U.S. can not operate without the President but in the Islamic Republic the President has more of a ceremonial role. Because of the differences between the state apparatus, the religion, different foreign policy are have major affect on the relationship of the two countries in the recent