Also known as
  • United States government,
  • US Government
The federal government of the United States is the centralized United States government body established by the United States Constitution. The federal government has three branches: the legislature, executive, and judiciary. Through a system of separation of powers or "checks and balances", each of these branches has some authority to act on its own, some authority to regulate the other two branches, and has some of its own authority, in turn, regulated by the other branches. The policies of... full article at wikipedia

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Created by Metaweb Oct 22, 2006
Last edited by joecarmel Aug 17, 2008

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