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Does America need a prime minister?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by geeimsobored, Aug 17, 2011.

  1. Dairy Ashford

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    With your spelling you'd think the city in Ohio never existed. But the closest we came to having one was Washington, who was probably too provincial and partisan to have any great ideas, but at least stepped down and kept us from becoming a monarchy or dictatorship. I guess you could give James K. Polk that title (in the context of our goals at the time).
     
  2. KingCheetah

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    What would a PM add to our system that would be beneficial?
     
  3. rocketsjudoka

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    They were both wealthy coming to office, both had policies that favored the wealthy, both manipulated public opinion through use of fear and patriotism, both were stubborn about their policies to the detriment of their countries.
    But we are talking governing system and in structure the US government is much more similar to those countries than it is to the UK. Its not just that they have a president, or Chancellor in Germany's case, but that they have a power sharing systems and separate executives. In Germany's case they also have a federal system.

    So you are saying a Parliamentary system wouldn't have a separate judiciary?
     
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  4. SamFisher

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    Yeah, so basically they both have names that begin with B.

    No we're not, we're talking about a political system. As somebody observed earlier - you keep viewing things in a vaccum and focusing on the superficial aspects, and I don't think you really appreciate how much influence something like proprortional representation has as opposed to a plurality/first past teh post system.
     

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