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Describe The Differences Between The Government Of Ethiopia And The United States

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USA and Ethiopia are independent countries which have a president. The president of US is elected by the citizens of the nation and also by its citizens who are in the diaspora through a voting process which is done after a period of four years. The constitution of the US has laws which restrict a president to serve for two terms is re-elected. Ethiopia and USA have three structures of the government namely: legislature, Executive and the Judiciary which perform different tasks in operations of the government as stipulated in their constitution (Jalata 2010). In the two countries we can note that in their government they apply federalism i.e. there is sharing of power between the state government and the federal government. The two states belong …show more content…

the Pentagon of the US needs intelligence services so as to deal with the Al-Qaeda fighters who are in the neighboring country Somalia (Jalata 2010).

The president of Ethiopia servers a term of six years and he is elected by the House of Peoples’ Representatives while in US the president is elected by the people through an election which is conducted in all different areas of the country. US have a president and vice president whereas Ethiopia has a prime minister and a president. Head of government in Ethiopia is the prime minister; this is very different in the case of US where the president is considered to be the head of the government. In US president heads the state, government, commander-in-chief of the military and also the chief diplomat. In the Ethiopian government, the president is not assigned to such tasks (Getachew 2009). Ethiopia has a parliamentary system whereas the US has a presidential system of government. In Ethiopia there are two chambers i.e. there is People’s Representative council which comprises of 547 members who are elected for a single-seat in the constituencies elected for a period of five years. The other chamber is Federation Council which has 110

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