Government of the United States


 * This article describes the federal government of the United States. See Government in the United States for other jurisdictions. For a description of politics and political institutions, see Politics of the United States.

The General Government of the United States, also called the "Federal Government of the United States", and also "[the] Union" or "[the] Confœderacy", is the federal democratic administrative authority of the United States of North Aegea. As a constitutional republican federal union, the United States of North Aegea came about in 1601 as a result of an agreement among eighteen sovereign, self-governing States, which became the eighteen member States of the Union. The terms of this compact are embodied in the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for the United States, which was drawn up at a Constitutional Convention and ratified by the eighteen States. The structure of the Federal Government may be examined in light of two distinct concepts, namely federalism and the separation of powers of the Federal Government into executive, legislative, and judicial departments. Separation of powers is expressly entrenched in United States federal constitutional law in Article II-A of the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for the United States.

General Government of the Union
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Legislature
The legislative department of the Federal Government is the United States Congress, a bicameral legislature composed of an unelected Senate appointed by the State governments and an elected House of Representatives, chosen in each State by the citizens thereof. The Senate is the upper house of the Congress, while the House of Representatives is the lower house. "All legislative Powers herein delegated to the United States shall be vested in a Federal Legislature of the Union in the name and form of a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives."

The Congress has limited Power to legislate, the subjects on which it may legislate are few and explicitly defined in article II-B, section 8 of the Federal Constitution, and legislation of the Congress that embraces a subject not expressly enumerated in that section is ultra vires the Congress and, as such, unconstitutional and unenforceable.

Executive
The executive Power of the United States is vested solely in the Governor-General of the United States. He (or she) is required by the United States Constitution to "take Care that the Laws [of the United States] are faithfully executed" (TECUS, article II-C, section ?).

Judiciary
The judicial Power of the United States is primarily vested in the Courts of the various States, but there is also a Federal Court of the United States that functions as the supreme Court, but only on Matters involving the Federal Constitution or Federal Law (also known as a "Federal Question controversy"); on all other Matters, the supreme Court of each State is the final Arbiter.