Systems of Government
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When the Founding Fathers first created a federal system of government for America, skepticism hung heavily among scholars of the time, especially those who lived outside this country. There was no precedent for such a form of government, many people questioned whether combining principles of two existing forms of government, a confederacy and a unitary government, was the best route for a new nation.
The unitary model structures power in such a way that all decision-making rests in the hands of the central government. This means that decisions flow from the central or national government to the local provinces or local entities. The powerful central governing authority has the ability to create or abolish units of smaller jurisdictional government entities as it sees fit to do so. Those created can only act in accordance with the will of the overhead government. There is a uniformity in the decisions and they apply equally across the country. One central government controls the weaker jurisdictions. Power is not shared between states, counties, or provinces. A large percentage (more than 90%) of the nations on the world have a unitary system of government in place...