Comparative Politics US Vs. Mexico

Britain’s America’s colonies broke from British rule in 1776 and where recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. The Original 13 colonies became the original 13 states that formed the new country. Since then they have added 37 new states to bring the grand total to 50 states and 1 district. Current population of these 50 states is 280,562,489 people as of July 2002 (TWF 2002). The United States has a Population growth rate of .89% (TWF 2002). The average Life expectancy at Birth is 77.4 years (TWF 2002).

Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. Mexico is currently mad up of 31 states and one federal district. Current population of these 31 states is 103,400,165 as of July 2002 (TWF 2002). Mexico has a growth population rate of 1.47% (TWF 2002) the average life expectancy at birth is 72.03 (TWF 2002)

Mexico’s Independent occurred on September 16 1810 from Spain. They however did not write there first constitution until Feb 5th 1917. The United States declared there Independence on July 4th 1776. They wrote there first constitution on September 17th 1787 and it was made effective March 4th 1789. (ODCVI Publications)

Mexico and the United States both operate a Federal republic style of Government. The US however is well steeped with a strong democratic tradition whereas the Elections in July of 2000 for Mexico are the first Time since the Mexican revolution of 1910 that the opposition defeated the party in government. Vicente Fox was sworn in on December 1st 2000 as the first chief executive elected in free and fair elections (ODCVI Publications).

The United States legal system is solely based on English common law. Whereas Mexico’s legal, system is a mixture of US constitutional theory and civil law system. Which I believe makes Mexico the first system of system in regards to there legal system.

As you can see, there are many similarities and differences between these two neighboring countries.

There are three main political parties in the United States, the Democratic Party, Republican Party and the green party during the last presidential election the popular vote was split like this Democratic candidate 48% Republican Candidate 48%, and the Green

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