Democratic presidential republic

(noun)

A system of government where an executive branch is led by a president who serves as both head of state and head of government; in such a system, this branch exists separately from the legislature, to which it is not responsible and which it cannot, in normal circumstances, dismiss.

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Examples of Democratic presidential republic in the following topics:

  • Types of States

    • The United States is a democratic presidential republic: a democratic government headed by a powerful elected executive, the president.
    • Hereditary rule is often a common characteristic, but elective monarchies are also considered monarchies (e.g., The Pope) and some states have hereditary rulers, but are considered republics (e.g., the Dutch Republic).
    • Blue represents full presidential republics, while green and yellow are presidential republics with less powerful presidents.
    • Orange represents parliamentary republics.
    • Brown represents single-party republics, green shows countries where government has been suspended (e.g., military dictatorships), and grey countries do not fit any of the above categories.

  • Chief Executive

    • Chief Executive is a term commonly used to refer to Presidential powers given by the Constitution.
    • As a result, "unofficial" presidential roles have evolved through both history and tradition.
    • It is commonly used to refer to Presidential powers given by the constitution.
    • In presidential republics or absolute monarchies, the head of government may be the same person as the head of state, who is often also called a president or a monarch.
    • This is in contrast to a presidential system in a democracy, where the head of state often is also the head of government, and most importantly: the executive branch does not derive its democratic legitimacy from the legislature.

  • The Election of 1800 and the Federalist Legacy

    • The presidential election of 1800 represented the first peaceful transfer of power between political parties in U.S. history.
    • Federalists spread rumors that the Democratic-Republicans were radicals who would ruin the country (based on the Democratic-Republican support for the French Revolution).
    • Hamilton, in an attempt to sabotage Adams in favor of electing the vice-presidential candidate Charles Pinckney, wrote a scathing 54 page criticism of Adams that accidentally became public when it landed in the hands of the Democratic-Republicans.
    • This was the first peaceful transfer of political power in the history of the republic, and Democratic-Republicans hailed Jefferson's victory as the "Revolution of 1800."
    • In response to the chaos of the election, the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted in 1804, calling for a "party ticket" consisting of one presidential and one vice presidential candidate.

  • Postwar Politics and the Election of 1920

    • The US presidential election of 1920 was dominated by the aftermath of World War I, hostility towards certain policies of Democratic president Woodrow Wilson, and opposition to the reformist zeal of the Progressive Era.
    • However, the provisions of these were inadequate to the supporters of the Irish Republic, who wanted full sovereignty.
    • Harding won the 1920 Presidential election by a landslide, gaining 60% of the popular vote.
    • Presidential election results map.
    • Poster for the 1920 Democratic presidential ticket.

  • Party Organization

    • The president of the United States, Barack Obama, is the 15th Democrat to hold the office, and since the 2006 midterm elections, the Democratic Party is the majority party for the United States Senate.
    • The need to win popular support in a republic led to the American invention of political parties in the 1790s.
    • These two parties have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and have controlled the United States Congress since at least 1856.
    • The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States.
    • Describe the organization of the Democratic and Republican parties in U.S. politics

  • The Election of 1972

    • In the presidential election of 1972, Richard Nixon beat the Democratic nominee, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, by a significant margin.
    • Nixon had a larger margin of victory in the popular vote than Johnson had, however, with 23.2%– the fourth largest in presidential election history.
    • After a week in which six prominent Democrats refused the vice presidential nomination, Sargent Shriver (brother-in-law to John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy, former Ambassador to France, and former Director of the Peace Corps) finally accepted.
    • Nevertheless, Nixon's campaign boasted of détente with the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union, both popular with most Americans.
    • This election had the lowest voter turnout for a presidential election since 1948, with only 55% of the electorate voting.

  • The 1956 Election and Eisenhower's Second Term

    • In the 1956 presidential election, popular incumbent Republican Dwight D.
    • Eisenhower successfully ran for re-election, winning against Democrat Adlai Stevenson, whom he had also defeated four years earlier.
    • Stevenson remained popular with a core of liberal Democrats but held no office and had no real base.
    • The defeat was actually a boost for Kennedy's long-term presidential chances.
    • In the Soviet-occupied People's Republic of Hungary, many citizens had risen in revolt against Soviet domination, but this quieted with the formation of a new government.

  • Tyler and Texas

    • , held their nominating convention in Baltimore in May of 1844, just as the Democratic Party was also nominating its presidential candidate.
    • President Tyler entered negotiations with the Republic of Texas for an annexation treaty, which he submitted to the Senate.
    • Former President Andrew Jackson, a staunch supporter of annexation, persuaded presidential candidate Polk to welcome Tyler back into the Democratic party and ordered Democratic editors to cease their attacks on the him.
    • Satisfied by these developments, Tyler dropped out of the presidential race in August and endorsed Polk for the presidency.
    • There was an ongoing border dispute between the Republic of Texas and Mexico prior to annexation.

  • Democratic Governments

    • Nevertheless, these oppositions, inherited from Greek philosophy, are now ambiguous because contemporary governments have mixed democratic, oligarchic, and monarchic elements.
    • Also relevant is the history of Roman republic, beginning circa 449 BCE.
    • As a result, they advocated a representative democracy in the form of a constitutional republic over a direct democracy.
    • It is an element of both the parliamentary system and presidential system of government and is typically used in a lower chamber such as the House of Commons (UK) or Bundestag (Germany).
    • A woman casts her vote in the second round of the French presidential election of 2007.

  • Hosting Conventions

    • Political parties in the United States that will be fielding nominees in an upcoming U.S. presidential election are responsible for hosting presidential nominating conventions.
    • The two major political parties in the U.S. host the quadrennial Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention to determine their respective presidential and vice presidential candidates.
    • The Democratic National Committee administers the Democratic National Convention while the Republican National Committee administers the Republican National Convention.
    • Subsequently, the more modern focus of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions has been to unify each respective party by having delegates vote on issues that the nominee can incorporate into their presidential campaign.
    • Presidential nominating conventions, like the Democratic National Convention, host influential speakers to increase party unity.