StateGovernmentandPartyPolitics讲解.ppt

Chapter14 State Government and Party Politics 1/ State Government 2/ Local Governments 3/ Political Parties 4/ Presidential Election The?Constitution?set?up?a?federal?system?of ?government? which?has?two?layers?of?rule. There?is?central?or?federal?government?for?the ? nation?which?alone?has?the?power?to?answer? questions?that?affect?the?nation?as?a?whole. There?are?also?state?and?local?governments. Each?layer?of?government?has?separate?and? distinct?powers?laid?down?in?the?Constitution. 美国宪法建立了联邦制政府,有两个管理层,一 个是全国的中央或联邦政府,有权对影响整个 国家问题独自做出决定,另一个是州和地方政 府,两个政府拥有有宪法分别规定的不同权力 state government 1 The power that state government enjoyed: residual power保留权，much autonomy很大程度上的自治权 its own constitution (voting requirement 选举资格条件 ,the organization of the state government , the state and local court, taxation, impeachment,州政府，州法院和地方法院的组织，税收，弹劾etc) 2 A state government is also made up of three branches: the legislative,the executive and judicial. The legislature 立法机构 e The chief executive 行政长官 The state court system 州法院系统 Most important part of state government ; consist of the Senate and the House of Representatives参议院和众议院； Nebraska has a single-chamber legislature内布拉斯加州立法 机构只有一个院。 The governor ; elected by popular vote ; the powers are generally Parallel to those of the president ; has administrative duties ; is the Commander of the National Guard of the state州 国民警卫队的司令 Not belong to the federal judiciary联邦司法机构；roughly Parallel to the federal pattern ; begin with local jurisdictions , Followed by trial courts , then ,by the state’s Supreme Court local government 1 country government县政府 There over 3000county government. The sheriff县 长 is the chief law enforcement officer of the county法律维护官员, and is also an officer of the court. 2 city,town,or village governments村政府 Local government: mayor-council system市长委员会制度City-government : the city-manager system城市经理型 3 local governments of school districts or di