One difference is between the two structures of government. The two countries government structured are based, primarily, on their constitutions. However, the constitution in the United Kingdom instead of the constitution being one document, as it is in the United States, it is rather a vast array of documents. This fact makes the United Kingdom not entirely a democracy but rather a Constitutional Monarchy. In the United States we have three distinct branches of government, executive, legislative, and judicial; made up of the presidency, Congress, and the Supreme and

Federal courts. The president, although not directly elected by the people because of the electoral college, is elected by the commonwealth of the United States, along with all of congress. However, the parliament, its structure and the way the executive of the government is appointed is much different. Parliament in the United Kingdom consists, technically, of the House of Commons, the House of the Lords, and the crown. Primarily because of the Act of Settlement, the crown is almost entirely limited to exercising ceremonial functions. Unlike the United States there is no clear separation between the executive, legislative and judicial powers in the United Kingdom. The executive part of government is the party in power, or the majority, in the House of Commons, and this party is headed by one of its own, the Prime Minister. There is no election of the head executive in the United Kingdom by the people, and the selection of the Prime Minister is the will of the party in power and the crown. Typically the crown asks the leader of the party in power to be Prime Minister. The legislative part of government is parliament as a whole, consisting of the House of Commons and the House of the Lords. Within the House of the Lords rests the judicial part of the British government, the Lords of Appeal, which is comparable to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Another dissimilarity is shown in the representation of the commonwealth in the two countries. In the United States our bicameral legislative body is made of the House of Representatives and the Senate. In the Senate there are one hundred representatives whose term lasts for six years, and after

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